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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] question on flushing buffers and spinning down disk
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:33:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070928193304.GG8385@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709280902.45557.oliver@neukum.org>

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:02:45AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Freitag 28 September 2007 schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:11:00PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > 
> > > PS: Whoever designed klists is suffering from a case of overengineeringosis.
> > 
> > No objection from me there. ?If you can think of a way to do list
> > traversal without taking locks, please, feel free to redo the whole
> > klist stuff.
> 
> No, I just was happy to be able to avoid using them.
> 
> But it is not just overengineered, it is also underengineered:
> 
> int bus_for_each_dev(struct bus_type * bus, struct device * start,
> 		     void * data, int (*fn)(struct device *, void *))
> 
> An interface should be designed to note where it fails, thus:
> 
> int bus_for_each_dev(struct bus_type * bus, struct device ** current,
> 		     void * data, int (*fn)(struct device *, void *))

You know that patches are always gladly accepted :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-28 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-18  8:32 question on flushing buffers and spinning down disk Oliver Neukum
2007-09-18 14:01 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-18 14:15   ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-18 14:26     ` James Bottomley
2007-09-24 10:33       ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-24 14:38         ` Alan Stern
2007-09-24 15:21           ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-24 15:34             ` Alan Stern
2007-09-24 16:47               ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-24 17:10                 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-24 19:16                   ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-24 19:39                     ` Alan Stern
2007-09-24 20:00                       ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-25 14:13                         ` Alan Stern
2007-09-25 15:11                           ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28  4:27                             ` Greg KH
2007-09-28  7:02                               ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28 19:33                                 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-09-25  7:50                       ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-25 15:03                         ` Alan Stern
2007-09-27 11:40                           ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-27 16:01                             ` Alan Stern
2007-09-27 18:12                               ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-27 19:07                                 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2007-09-27 19:26                                   ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-27 20:26                                     ` Alan Stern
2007-09-27 20:54                                       ` Steve Calfee
2007-09-27 21:16                                         ` Alan Stern
2007-09-27 21:37                                           ` U. George
2007-09-28  8:17                                       ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28 15:01                                         ` Alan Stern
2007-09-28  8:22                                       ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28 21:11                                         ` Alan Stern
2007-09-28 21:47                                           ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-29 15:56                                             ` Alan Stern
2007-09-29 16:12                                               ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28  9:04                                       ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28 15:07                                         ` Alan Stern
2007-09-28 21:33                                           ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-29 16:38                                             ` Alan Stern
2007-09-29 17:52                                               ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-29 19:06                                                 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-29 20:06                                                   ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-29 20:56                                                     ` Alan Stern
2007-09-29 21:03                                                     ` David Brownell

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