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From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Smith <danms@us.ibm.com>,
	containers@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] c/r: Add CR_COPY() macro (v3)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:53:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090304135314.618ad07e@thinkcentre.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236128437.22399.31.camel@nimitz>

On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:00:37 -0800
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 16:57 -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
> > DH> Did you convince Nathan that this ends up being a good idea?
> > 
> > Technically he hasn't seen this version, but my hopes are not high
> > that he will change his mind.  If the feedback is that they're not
> > liked, I'll happily remove them.
> 
> I just figure if Nathan feels that strongly that we'll encounter more
> people who feel even more so.  So, I was curious if he changed his mind
> somehow.

No, not really, sorry.

I understand why it's nice for the developer to have this sort of
helper, but I don't think it's nice for someone trying to review or
debug the code.

Surely discussing these macros has already consumed more developer time
than they would ever save?  :)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-04 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03 15:56 [PATCH 0/3] c/r: Add s390 support Dan Smith
2009-03-03 15:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] s390: Expose a constant for the number of words representing the CRs Dan Smith
2009-03-03 16:08   ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-04  0:56     ` Dan Smith
2009-03-04  0:59       ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-03 15:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] c/r: Add CR_COPY() macro (v3) Dan Smith
2009-03-03 16:22   ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-04  0:57     ` Dan Smith
2009-03-04  1:00       ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-04 15:05         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-18  7:51           ` Oren Laadan
2009-03-18 13:43             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-04 19:53         ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2009-03-04 20:18           ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-04 20:01   ` Nathan Lynch
2009-03-04 20:18     ` Dan Smith
2009-03-03 15:56 ` [PATCH 3/3] c/r: define s390-specific checkpoint-restart code (v7) Dan Smith
2009-03-03 22:40   ` Serge E. Hallyn

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