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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Module load notification take 3
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 04:17:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030327041759.GA4367@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030327041148.0A4A12C054@lists.samba.org>

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:20:23PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:

> What reason?  I just grepped 2.5.66-bk2, and *noone* uses the return
> value, not even to BUG() (you have to grep for all the wrappers for
> notifier_call_unregister, too).

Just more grist for the mill of the ill ...

> (I assume you mean notifier_call_unregister).  Yes, but that's another
> battle.

... and it's the same ill. Half-cleaned up stuff sucks. Either remove it
or don't.

> That's because everyone realizes that the return value is useless.

It detects one variant of unmatched register/unregister, so it cannot be
said to be entirely useless. I would not call it entirely useful,
though, I admit.

Beside the point though really, I appear to have made onto Linus'
shitlist at last ... does this mean I finally graduated Linux School ?

regards
john

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-27  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-25  2:03 [PATCH 1/2] Module load notification take 3 John Levon
2003-03-25  2:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] " John Levon
2003-03-25  6:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Rusty Russell
2003-03-25 11:41   ` John Levon
2003-03-27  2:20     ` Rusty Russell
2003-03-27  4:17       ` John Levon [this message]
2003-03-27  5:26         ` Rusty Russell

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