From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/31] Constify struct super_operations for 2.6.32 v1
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:51:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091208015148.GK14381@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B1D988E.2000305@gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 01:06:38AM +0100, Emese Revfy wrote:
> DEBUG_RODATA catches the unwanted write attempt at runtime whereas
> my patch will catch it at compile time. I think it's better to detect
> an error as early as possible.
Not when the price is readability. Moreover, you *still* are not
covering the real policy - these suckers should be statically allocated,
not just never modified.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-08 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-06 5:14 [PATCH 28/31] Constify struct super_operations for 2.6.32 v1 Alexey Dobriyan
2009-12-06 14:23 ` Emese Revfy
2009-12-07 18:30 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-12-08 0:06 ` Emese Revfy
2009-12-08 1:51 ` Al Viro [this message]
2009-12-09 0:24 ` Emese Revfy
2009-12-09 0:47 ` Al Viro
2009-12-09 8:22 ` Olivier Galibert
2009-12-10 18:24 ` Emese Revfy
2009-12-09 1:31 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-09 1:45 ` Al Viro
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-04 22:00 [PATCH 00/31] constify various _ops structures " Emese Revfy
2009-12-04 22:47 ` [PATCH 28/31] Constify struct super_operations " Emese Revfy
2009-12-06 1:23 ` Al Viro
2009-12-06 1:41 ` Emese Revfy
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