The patch titled
Subject: fat: expand a slightly out-of-date comment
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fat-expand-a-slightly-out-of-date-comment.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fat-expand-a-slightly-out-of-date-comment.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fat-expand-a-slightly-out-of-date-comment.patch
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From: Mihir Mehta <mihir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fat: expand a slightly out-of-date comment
The file namei.c seems to have been renamed to namei_msdos.c, so I decided
to update the comment with the correct name, and expand it a bit to tell
the reader what to look for.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180928194947.23932-1-mihir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fat/dir.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/fat/dir.c~fat-expand-a-slightly-out-of-date-comment
+++ a/fs/fat/dir.c
@@ -369,7 +369,9 @@ static int fat_parse_short(struct super_
}
memcpy(work, de->name, sizeof(work));
- /* see namei.c, msdos_format_name */
+ /* For an explanation of the special treatment of 0x05 in
+ * filenames, see msdos_format_name in namei_msdos.c
+ */
if (work[0] == 0x05)
work[0] = 0xE5;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mihir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
fat-expand-a-slightly-out-of-date-comment.patch
