From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762695AbZCQIvP (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:51:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753177AbZCQIu6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:50:58 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:33888 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752304AbZCQIu6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:50:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [git-pull -tip] x86: cleanup 20090317 From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar , x86 maintainers , LKML In-Reply-To: References: <1237229111.2827.2.camel@ht.satnam> <1237267595.2480.9.camel@ht.satnam> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:20:33 +0530 Message-Id: <1237279833.3464.4.camel@ht.satnam> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 09:38 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 23:33 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > > > > > > -static struct clock_event_device pit_clockevent = { > > > > +static struct clock_event_device pit_dev = { > > > > > > Why do we need to change the name of the variable ? Just for fun or > > > is pit_dev more self explaining than pit_clockevent ? > > > > pit already means it is a clock event, but with this change: > > > > 1. we save 8 characters per declaration > > 2. It solves various 80 characters problem > > There is not a single 80 character problem in that file. Here are 80 character problems: 1. pit_clockevent.mult = div_sc(CLOCK_TICK_RATE, NSEC_PER_SEC, pit_clockevent.shift); 2. pit_clockevent.max_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(0x7FFF, &pit_clockevent); 3. pit_clockevent.min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(0xF, &pit_clockevent); 4. clocksource_pit.mult = clocksource_hz2mult(CLOCK_TICK_RATE, clocksource_pit.shift); -- JSR