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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] -mm  clocksource: add some new API calls
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:05:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154725503.5932.251.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154719720.12936.50.camel@c-67-188-28-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 12:28 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > >  int clocksource_register(struct clocksource *c)
> > >  {
> > >  	int ret = 0;
> > >  	unsigned long flags;
> > >  
> > > +	if (unlikely(!c))
> > > +		return -EINVAL;
> > > +
> > 
> > I'm not sure I understand the need for this. Is it really likely someone
> > would pass NULL to clocksource_register()?
> 
> Not likely, I was just covering all possibilities.. It might be better
> as a BUG_ON() actually.

BUG_ON is the only thing, which can be correct here. Registering a NULL
clocksource simply is a bug, but even the BUG_ON is overkill here. 

	tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-04 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-04  3:24 [PATCH 00/10] -mm generic clocksoure API dwalker
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 01/10] -mm clocksource: increase initcall priority dwalker
2006-08-04 18:39   ` john stultz
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 02/10] -mm clocksource: small cleanup dwalker
2006-08-04 18:40   ` john stultz
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 03/10] -mm clocksource: enable plist dwalker
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 04/10] -mm clocksource: add some new API calls dwalker
2006-08-04 19:06   ` john stultz
2006-08-04 19:28     ` Daniel Walker
2006-08-04 21:05       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 05/10] -mm clocksource: convert generic timeofday dwalker
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 06/10] -mm clocksource: add block notifier dwalker
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 07/10] -mm clocksource: remove update_callback dwalker
2006-08-04 19:28   ` john stultz
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 08/10] -mm clocksource: cleanup on -mm dwalker
2006-08-04 19:53   ` john stultz
2006-08-04 21:11     ` Daniel Walker
2006-08-04 22:16       ` john stultz
2006-08-04 23:16         ` Daniel Walker
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 09/10] -mm clocksource: initialize list value dwalker
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 10/10] -mm clocksource: add generic sched_clock() dwalker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-06 18:54 [PATCH 00/10] -mm: generic clocksource API -v2 Daniel Walker
2006-10-06 18:54 ` [PATCH 04/10] -mm: clocksource: add some new API calls Daniel Walker
2006-10-09 19:01   ` john stultz

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