From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [patch] remove null-ifiers Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:54:48 +0000 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20040130145448.GG18725@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20040127150954.GA12740@hell.org.pl> <16406.32889.922823.45313@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <40168442.7020806@neggie.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40168442.7020806-wanGne27zNesTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: John Belmonte Cc: Jes Sorensen , Karol Kozimor , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:31:14AM -0500, John Belmonte wrote: > That may be the case, but in the process I think you are destroying > vital information about which variables the code depends on being > initialized to zero. If the Linux kernel ever changed its policy, or if > the code was used in something other than the Linux kernel (perhaps even > being translated to some other computer language), you would need that > information again. No. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn