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    iversion: make inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} return bool instead of s64 · c0cef30e
    Jeff Layton 提交于
    As Linus points out:
    
        The inode_cmp_iversion{+raw}() functions are pure and utter crap.
    
        Why?
    
        You say that they return 0/negative/positive, but they do so in a
        completely broken manner. They return that ternary value as the
        sequence number difference in a 's64', which means that if you
        actually care about that ternary value, and do the *sane* thing that
        the kernel-doc of the function implies is the right thing, you would
        do
    
            int cmp = inode_cmp_iversion(inode, old);
            if (cmp < 0 ...
    
        and as a result you get code that looks sane, but that doesn't
        actually *WORK* right.
    
    Since none of the callers actually care about the ternary value here,
    convert the inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} functions to just return a boolean
    value (false for matching, true for non-matching).
    
    This matches the existing use of these functions just fine, and makes it
    simple to convert them to return a ternary value in the future if we
    grow callers that need it.
    
    With this change we can also reimplement inode_cmp_iversion in a simpler
    way using inode_peek_iversion.
    Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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