Re: [PATCH v6 08/24] erofs: add namei functions

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Aug 29 2019 - 06:28:54 EST


On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 08:53:31PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> +struct erofs_qstr {
> + const unsigned char *name;
> + const unsigned char *end;
> +};

Maybe erofs_name? The q in qstr stands for quick, because of the
existing hash and len, which this doesn't really provide.

Also I don't really see why you don't just pass the actual qstr and
just document that dirnamecmp does not look at the hash and thus
doesn't require it to be filled out.