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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, jdl@jdl.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Return a non-zero exit code if an error occurs during dts parsing.
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:56:09 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080110035609.GL17816@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080106225509.GC8239@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net>

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:55:09PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:30:33PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > This is unequivocally wrong.  boot_info should have information about
> > the contents of the blob, not state information like the error.
> 
> "This blob is invalid" *is* information about the contents of the blob.
> 
> > If you're going to use an ugly global, then use it everywhere.
> 
> Why go out of our way to make the code even less library-able/thread-safe?

It doesn't make it any less thread-safe.  A global variable used some
places is just as bad as a global variable used everywhere from that
point of view, and is more complicated.

-- 
David Gibson			| I'll have my music baroque, and my code
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au	| minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ _other_
				| _way_ _around_!
http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-10  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-03 23:43 [PATCH 3/3] Return a non-zero exit code if an error occurs during dts parsing Scott Wood
2008-01-04  4:30 ` David Gibson
2008-01-06 22:55   ` Scott Wood
2008-01-10  3:56     ` David Gibson [this message]
2008-01-10 17:22       ` Scott Wood

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