From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (resend) reuse xxx_fifo_fops for xxx_pipe_fops
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:10:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080701011045.f4490332.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807011203.50632.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:03:50 +0200 Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I think since XXX_pipe_fops are only used in this file,
> just explaining this in the comment would be enough.
no, a comment is only needed when the code is unobvious. Make
the code obvious and we don't need a comment.
As Christoph pointed out, open-coding shared_read_fops everywhere
might make sense too. It'd make it harder to unshare them later
on, but that's pretty improbable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-01 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-01 9:03 [PATCH] (resend) reuse xxx_fifo_fops for xxx_pipe_fops Denys Vlasenko
2008-07-01 7:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-01 7:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-01 10:03 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-07-01 8:10 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-07-01 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-01 12:11 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-07-01 12:16 ` Denys Vlasenko
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