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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemcheck: make bitfield annotations be valid C
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:56:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090607125642.GH8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090607092054.GA31286@elte.hu>

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:20:54AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > According to Al Viro, the syntax we were using (putting #ifdef inside
> > > > macro arguments) was not valid C. He also suggested using begin/end
> > > > markers instead, which is what we do now.
> > > >
> > > > Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
> > > 
> > > Al, are you okay with this?
> > 
> > Looks sane
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> This removes the blocker bug from kmemcheck and we can try to push 
> it in the .31 merge window. Does the level and amount of bit-field 
> annotations look unduly troublesome to you? If we merge kmemcheck 
> then we'll have these type annotations forever.

What had been posted in this thread didn't look over the top for me, but
it's really a question for maintainers of the affected code...

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-07 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-15 19:55 [PATCH] kmemcheck: make bitfield annotations be valid C Vegard Nossum
2009-05-16  6:40 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-16  6:40   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-06  6:25   ` Al Viro
2009-06-07  9:20     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-07 12:56       ` Al Viro [this message]

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