From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr>,
MTD Maling List <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix C++ kernel in include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 15:04:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdU2mFkQHwTZ9AWihoQXryU2ZjsvwyOkth-cf_M7HeppWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171006123203.GM21978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 02:13:59PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> On Fri 2017-10-06 13:01:16, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 14:00 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> > > Am Freitag, 6. Oktober 2017, 13:55:14 CEST schrieb Pavel Machek:
>> > > > > Let's carry it via MTD.
>> > > > > BTW: Shouldn't it be s/kernel/comment/ in the subject line?
>> > > > Yes, it should. Can it be fixed while applying?
>> > > Sure. :)
>> >
>> > You can change 'C++' to 'C99' too, while you're at it :)
>>
>> No. They are C++ comments... as in... dangerous infection that came
>> from C++. Yes, C99 is infected, too, but still C++ is original source
>> of infection :-).
>
> No, it is not. See https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/bcpl.html and
> scans refered therein; let's keep snobbery historically accurate...
>
> IOW, it's not C++ invention - it's BCPL one.
Ah, longing for the return of BPTRs and BSTRs ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-06 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-23 20:13 [PATCH] Fix C++ kernel in include/linux/mtd/mtd.h Pavel Machek
2017-09-23 21:10 ` Marek Vasut
2017-09-24 8:20 ` Boris Brezillon
2017-09-24 8:23 ` Richard Weinberger
2017-10-06 11:55 ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-06 12:00 ` Richard Weinberger
2017-10-06 12:01 ` David Woodhouse
2017-10-06 12:13 ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-06 12:25 ` David Woodhouse
2017-10-12 10:31 ` Alan Cox
2017-10-06 12:32 ` Al Viro
2017-10-06 13:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
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