Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] fs/ntfs3: Fix one none utf8 char in source file

From: Kari Argillander
Date: Wed Aug 18 2021 - 04:56:32 EST


On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 07:33:00AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 04:06:47AM +0300, Kari Argillander wrote:
> > In one source file there is for some reason non utf8 char. But hey this
> > is fs development so this kind of thing might happen.
>
> Pleaese also refomat these comments while you're at it. While going
> over 80 characters is ok in exceptions for readability that is per
> definition never the case for a block comment.

Yeah. Totally good option. I already did it and looks lot better.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 07:23:40AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 04:06:46AM +0300, Kari Argillander wrote:
> > In ntfs3 driver there is allocation made like this ntfs_malloc().
> > Patch 2/3 will converter these to kernel ones like kmalloc(). After I
> > did this then checkpatch raise warnings about array allocations so I
> > fix these in patch 3/3.
> >
> > I also notice when I made patch that there is broken utf8 char so I
> > wanted first fix that because it raised some warning in my editor and
> > did not want to "break" patch 2/3. So patch 1/3 address that. I did
> > try to apply this and it seem to work without issues.
>
> So this mostly looks sensible, but I still haven't actually seen
> the codebase this applies to posted anywhere as far as I can tell.

Yeah that's true. Only place for mention this is here (link). I have
asked that Konstantin will send patch series v28 to mailing lists. I
will resist resending v4 before Konstantin has sended.
https://lore.kernel.org/ntfs3/a9114805f777461eac6fbb0e8e5c46f6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/