Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] block: change annotation of rdb_CylBlocks in affs_hardblocks.h

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On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 03:08:36PM +1200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> +/* MSch 20230615: any field used by the Linux kernel must be
> + * annotated __be32! If any fields require increase to 64
> + * bit size, rdb_ID _must_ be changed!
> + */

This is a really weird comment.  If you change on-disk format it
is a different format and needs to be marked as such, sure.

And as far as I can tell everything that is a __u32 here should
be an __be32 because it is a big endian on-disk format.  Why
would you change only a single field?




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