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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, jmorris@namei.org,
	hch@infradead.org, davem@davemloft.net, sfrench@us.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] CRED: Introduce credential access wrappers
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:27:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9503.1218572852@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808122102.15794.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>

Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> wrote:

> Why macros? When introducing APIs using trivial inlines makes sure that 
> the conversion is correct, type correct and side effect free for the callers.
> Macros cannot ensure this without pain.

But macros don't care that you can't access current at this point.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-12 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-12 13:28 [PATCH 0/2] Introduce credentials API David Howells
2008-08-12 13:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] CRED: Alter XFS so as to avoid namespace collisions with upcoming COW creds David Howells
2008-08-12 22:55   ` James Morris
2008-08-12 23:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-12 13:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] CRED: Introduce credential access wrappers David Howells
2008-08-12 19:02   ` Ingo Oeser
2008-08-12 20:27     ` David Howells [this message]
2008-08-12 22:59       ` Ingo Oeser

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