From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267427AbUG2Jtm (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:49:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267425AbUG2Jtl (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:49:41 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:53417 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267427AbUG2Jtk (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:49:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:49:31 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: OGAWA Hirofumi Cc: aebr@win.tue.nl, vojtech@suse.cz, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix NR_KEYS off-by-one error Message-Id: <20040729024931.4b4e78e6.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <87oelzjhcx.fsf@ibmpc.myhome.or.jp> References: <87llhjlxjk.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20040716164435.GA8078@ucw.cz> <20040716201523.GC5518@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <871xjbkv8g.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20040728115130.GA4008@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <87fz7c9j0y.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20040728134202.5938b275.pj@sgi.com> <87llh3ihcn.fsf@ibmpc.myhome.or.jp> <20040728231548.4edebd5b.pj@sgi.com> <87oelzjhcx.fsf@ibmpc.myhome.or.jp> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I didn't see any big cleanup in your patch. That could well be . Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I figured that replacing the #define's with local variables was worth a couple of style points, and that explicitly checking that the user provided values were within limits, all the time, no ifdefs, was more straight forward. But it is difficult to establish such preferences with certainty. Again, thanks for considering my reply. Do as you think best. I am afraid I have no more wisdom (if ever I had any ...). -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373