From: Brad Chapman <kakadu_croc@yahoo.com>
To: Tobias Diedrich <ranma@gmx.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:21:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010825002145.15725.qmail@web10906.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010825021651.I8296@router.ranmachan.dyndns.org>
--- Tobias Diedrich <ranma@gmx.at> wrote:
> Brad Chapman wrote:
>
> > This way, some hackers can use the two-arg min()/max() inside an #ifdef block,
> > other hackers can use the three-arg min()/max() inside an #ifdef block,
> > and people who don't care can select either.
>
> Umm, you know this means some drivers will work only with one setting, unless
> you always code both versions, which would be stupid ?
>
> --
> Tobias PGP-Key: 0x9AC7E0BC
Mr. Diedrich,
Yes, I'm aware of that. That's why we should try to centralize the #ifdef
somewhere, so that everybody sees a unified interface, but at the same time,
do this correctly _and_ _without_ the use of typeof().
BTW what is your opinion on the things I suggested?
Brad
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2001-08-28 19:33 ` Brad Chapman
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2001-08-28 20:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-08-28 20:42 ` Brad Chapman
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2001-08-25 0:54 ` Brad Chapman
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2001-08-28 4:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-28 5:20 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-28 5:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-28 11:10 ` Alan Cox
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2001-08-28 20:06 ` John Alvord
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2001-08-28 13:27 ` Linus Torvalds
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2001-08-28 15:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-28 15:44 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-08-28 15:55 ` Russell King
2001-08-28 16:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-28 16:53 ` Roman Zippel
2001-08-28 16:39 ` Roman Zippel
2001-08-28 21:51 ` Mike Castle
2001-08-29 0:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-29 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-29 15:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-29 16:02 ` David Lang
2001-08-29 23:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-30 2:05 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2001-08-30 3:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-30 13:10 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-08-30 13:17 ` David Woodhouse
2001-08-30 13:26 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-08-30 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
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2001-08-31 16:27 ` Jamie Lokier
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2001-08-31 0:55 ` Linus Torvalds
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2001-08-31 13:22 ` Peter T. Breuer
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2001-09-07 10:58 ` Peter T. Breuer
2001-09-07 14:39 ` Bill Pringlemeir
2001-09-07 15:17 ` Peter T. Breuer
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2001-08-30 16:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-30 16:41 ` Christopher Friesen
2001-08-30 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-30 17:13 ` Roman Zippel
2001-08-31 1:28 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-08-31 5:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-31 12:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-08-31 13:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-30 17:01 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-30 17:03 ` Peter T. Breuer
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