From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] freevxfs: minor cleanups
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:58:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f0205062900585a7e0d9f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.06.29.07.32.18.523132@smurf.noris.de>
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Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > The rationale for this is that since NULL is not guaranteed to be zero
> > by the C standard
On 6/29/05, Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> wrote:
> ... as opposed to the other 632719 places in the kernel source where
> we do the exact same thing?
Well, as silly as it sounds to you, that _was_ the rationale for NTFS.
I actually like it better than using kcalloc() but at the end of the
day, I care more that the kernel uses same idioms all over. Makes the
code easier to understand for my tiny brain...
P.S. Those 632719 places can be fixed too with a handful of persistent
kernel janitors ;)
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-29 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <iit0gm.lxobpl.5z2b9jduhy9fvx6tjxrco46v4.refire@cs.helsinki.fi>
2005-06-28 23:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] freevxfs: fix buffer_head leak Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 4:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-06-29 7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-29 7:21 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <iit0h1.q7pnex.bkir3xysppdufw6d9h65boz37.refire@cs.helsinki.fi>
2005-06-28 23:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] freevxfs: minor cleanups Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 4:20 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-06-29 7:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-29 7:42 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-06-29 7:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-29 7:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] " Matthias Urlichs
2005-06-29 7:58 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2005-06-29 7:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-29 7:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 7:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-29 7:39 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-06-29 7:51 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-06-29 10:23 ` Roman Zippel
[not found] ` <iit0hc.owmgrf.a8mlfisjmja2ab31fpl1ysmkp.refire@cs.helsinki.fi>
2005-06-28 23:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] freevxfs: remove 2.4 compatability Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 7:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
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