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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: Don't convert function's local variable name in macro
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 01:14:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090527231435.GC20509@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090527230505.GG5982@nowhere>


* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:36:02PM +0800, Zhaolei wrote:
> > "call" is a argument of macro, but it is also used as a local variable name of
> > function in macro.
> > We should keep this local variable name static although it haven't cause
> > problem now.
> > 
> > [ Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed ]
> 
> 
> I'm applying it.
> 
> Note, I'm also changing the impact line. This is more than a
> cleanup, it's a real fix to prevent from possible CPP side effects.
> 
> So I'll put instead:
> 
> [ Impact: prevent from accidental CPP substitution ]

I suspect it should be something like:

  [ Impact: robustify macro ]

or so.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-27 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-27 13:36 [PATCH] ftrace: Don't convert function's local variable name in macro Zhaolei
2009-05-27 13:47 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-27 18:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-27 23:05 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-27 23:14   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-05-27 23:16     ` Frederic Weisbecker

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