From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>,
Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:04:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020904200424.O1394@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15734.37217.686498.162782@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>; from peter@chubb.wattle.id.au on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:04:01AM +1000
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:04:01AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> Unfortunately, this doesn't really buy you much ---- standard C type
> promotion rules mean that whatever (within reason) you pass to
> llsect() will work without warning.
Not if someone changes a variable to a pointer by accident without
updating the printk. It does happen.
-ben
--
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-04 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <825516963@toto.iv>
[not found] ` <15734.37217.686498.162782@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
2002-09-05 0:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-09-05 0:38 ` Large block device patch, part 1 of 9 Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 1:31 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-05 4:05 ` Daniel Phillips
[not found] <fa.l4d1mqv.1ghm1h2@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.j8nq6dv.14lihor@ifi.uio.no>
2002-12-03 8:45 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-12-03 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-12-03 17:48 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
[not found] <15732.34929.657481.777572@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209030900410.1997-100000@home.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-09-03 16:23 ` Andi Kleen
2002-09-03 8:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-03 16:43 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-09-03 8:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-03 0:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-12-05 10:58 ` Pavel Machek
2002-12-05 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-23 5:47 Peter Chubb
2002-08-23 7:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-27 15:23 ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-27 22:58 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-08-27 23:40 ` Peter Chubb
2002-09-03 10:01 ` Neil Brown
2002-09-03 16:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-03 16:21 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-03 23:06 ` Neil Brown
2002-12-03 0:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-03 19:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 19:50 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-03 20:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 20:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-03 20:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 20:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 20:05 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-03 20:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-12-03 0:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20020904200424.O1394@redhat.com \
--to=bcrl@redhat.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au \
--cc=pavel@suse.cz \
--cc=peter@chubb.wattle.id.au \
--cc=phillips@arcor.de \
--cc=torvalds@transmeta.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.