Re: [PATCH] fat: Refactor shortname parsing

[Steven J. Magnani]

On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 04:08 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: 
> "Steven J. Magnani" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Nearly identical shortname parsing is performed in fat_search_long()
> > and __fat_readdir(). Extract this code into a function that may be
> > called by both.
> 
> What is the difference, and why changes was needed?

The only difference I could see was in the "dot_hidden" functionality.  
fat_search_long() never does it; __fat_readdir() does it only when the
'dotsOK' option is active.

The changes are not 'needed'; they are purely to simplify future
maintenance of the code.

Regards,
Steve


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