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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: drepper@redhat.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davidel@xmailserver.org,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] flag parameters: check magic constants
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:39:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080512.213925.193699728.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48291749.1060400@redhat.com>

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:21:29 -0700

> Is MIPS really a problem?  The value is 0x80.  128 protocol types should
> be enough.  Even if not, there is no reason why the numbers should be
> consecutive.  It's easy enough to skip over a bit.  I.e., after procotol
> 0x7f the next one would be 0x100.

Indeed, MIPS looks good.

> And PA seems to have gotten O_NONBLOCK wrong.  SPARC does it right AFAICS.

I agree.

But that value is compiled into every parisc binary out there,
limiting what we can do about it in the short term.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-06 21:18 [PATCH 18/18] flag parameters: check magic constants Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-13  3:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13  3:45   ` David Miller
2008-05-13  3:54   ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-13  4:01     ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13  4:02     ` David Miller
2008-05-13  4:21       ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-13  4:39         ` David Miller [this message]
2008-05-13  5:04       ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13  5:10         ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-13  5:19           ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13  5:42             ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-14  4:43               ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-23  5:22 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-23 14:31   ` Ulrich Drepper

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