[PATCH 05/15] mkfs: factor boolean option parsing

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Mon Dec 2 17:13:03 CST 2013


On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:46:31AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:43:40PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Many of the options passed to mkfs have boolean options (0 or 1) and
> > all hand roll the same code and validity checks. Factor these out
> > into a common function.
> > 
> > Note that the lazy-count option is now changed to match other
> > booleans in that if you don't specify a value, it reverts to the
> > default value (on) rather than throwing an error. Similarly the -m
> > crc and -n ftype options default to off rather than throwing an
> > error.
> 
> Looks good,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 
> Unrelated question that came up when reading through this patch:
> 
> should we start deprecating some options that have long been the
> default, like lazy-count or attrv1?

Yes, we probably should. I'll put that at the end of the series when
it's just a trivial case of adding a flag to the relevant options
and adding a check and warning....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com



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