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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@linuxcare.com.au>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:40:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001124224018.A5173@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011212300590.950-100000@penguin.homenet> <20001123110203.EB8A8813D@halfway.linuxcare.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20001123110203.EB8A8813D@halfway.linuxcare.com.au>; from rusty@linuxcare.com.au on Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:01:53PM +1100

On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:01:53PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011212300590.950-100000@penguin.homenet> you write:
> > > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:25:01 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Quick removal of unnecessary initialization to 0.
> > 
> > Quite the contrary. The patch seems correct and useful to me. What do you
> > think is wrong with it? (Linus accepted megabytes worth of the above in
> > the past...)
> 
> What irritates about these monkey-see-monkey-do patches is that if I
> initialize a variable to NULL, it's because my code actually relies on
> it; I don't want that information eliminated.

Yes, but if it generates a bigger (== worse) binary?

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-24 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-21 21:25 [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2000-11-21 22:55 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-21 23:04   ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-21 23:18     ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-21 23:26       ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-21 23:30         ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-23 11:01     ` Rusty Russell
2000-11-24 21:40       ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
     [not found]         ` <20001128031933.52DB981F5@halfway.linuxcare.com.au>
2000-11-28  8:59           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2000-11-24 23:13       ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-25 12:01         ` Russell King
2000-11-25 11:50       ` Russell King
2000-11-25 23:56       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2000-11-22  0:09   ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-22 11:40   ` Russell King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-28 20:58 David Hinds
2000-11-28 21:08 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-28 23:53   ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29  3:23     ` Keith Owens
2000-11-29  3:35       ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29  7:48     ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-29 14:00       ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29 14:08         ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-29 16:16 Darryl Miles
2000-11-29 23:54 ` Russell King

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