Re: [PATCH 4/5] xfs: simplify the fallocate path

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 05:52:12AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:09:56PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > You don't use this flag anywhere ;)
> 
> Fixed.
> 
> > While I like most of this series, I don't really like the
> > duplication of this piece of code. It seems to me that a simple
> > helper like:
> 
> I had that in a previous version, but it seemed uglier than just
> opencoding it.  I'll give it another try, maybe I can come up
> with something nicer now.

I've looked at this and it does not seem to improve the code at all,
unless you have a strong objection I'm going to repost the series
just with the above unused variable removed.