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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil,
	rolandd@cisco.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [git patches 1/2] warnings: attack valid cases spotted by warnings
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:18:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adabqeamjjs.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707171957300.27353@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:00:10 -0700 (PDT)")

 > Quite frankly, I don't quite understand where you get those enormous balls 
 > you have, that you can then talk about how ugly it is to just add a "= 0" 
 > that shuts up a compiler warning. That's the _least_ ugly part of the 
 > whole damn function!

The clanking when I walk annoys people in the office too...

But you're right.  It is stupid of me to make such a big deal about
this.  My excuse is that I've seen those warnings so many times and
actually given them more thought than they deserve, and I really felt
that Jeff's change makes the admittedly already ugly code a tiny
little bit worse.

 > Anyway, here's a totally untested cleanup that compiles but probably 
 > doesn't work, because I didn't check that I did the right thing with all 
 > the pointer arithmetic (ie when I change "wqe" to a real structure pointer 
 > instead of just a "void *", maybe I left some pointer arithmetic around 
 > that expected it to work as a byte pointer, but now really works on the 
 > whole structure size instead).

Given that you took the time to do this, I'll get the patch into a
working state and apply it.  And maybe split it into reviewable chunks
while I'm at it ;)

Thanks,
  Roland

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-18  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-17 21:42 [git patches 1/2] warnings: attack valid cases spotted by warnings Jeff Garzik
2007-07-17 21:49 ` [git patches 2/2] warnings: use uninitialized_var() Jeff Garzik
2007-07-18 11:30   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-17 21:53 ` [git patches 1/2] warnings: attack valid cases spotted by warnings Roland Dreier
2007-07-17 22:10   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-17 22:17     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-18  2:35     ` Roland Dreier
2007-07-18  2:46       ` Roland Dreier
2007-07-18  4:00         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18  4:18           ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-07-18  5:12             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 17:37               ` Roland Dreier
2007-07-18 18:02                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18  2:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18  3:09         ` Roland Dreier
2007-07-18  3:29           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-17 22:19   ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 22:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18  2:46 ` Greg KH
2007-07-18 20:03   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-18 22:07     ` Greg KH

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