Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Rename uninitialized extents to unwritten

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:14:23PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Currently in ext4 there is quite a mess when it comes to naming
> unwritten extents. Sometimes we call it uninitialized and sometimes we
> refer to it as unwritten.
> 
> The right name for the extent which has been allocated but does not
> contain any written data is _unwritten_. Other file systems are
> using this name consistently, even the buffer head state refers to it as
> unwritten. We need to fix this confusion in ext4.
> 
> This commit changes every reference to an uninitialized extent (meaning
> allocated but unwritten) to unwritten extent. This includes comments,
> function names and variable names. It even covers abbreviation of the
> word uninitialized (such as uninit) and some misspellings.
> 
> This commit does not change any of the code paths at all. This has been
> confirmed by comparing md5sums of the assembly code of each object file
> after all the function names were stripped from it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, queued.

						- Ted
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