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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "André Goddard Rosa" <andre.goddard@gmail.com>,
	laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, mingo@elte.hu, davem@davemloft.net,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, harvey.harrison@gmail.com,
	"linux list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] vsprintf: reduce code size by avoiding extra check
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:32:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091102193248.GC4880@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257186583.28925.47.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:29:43AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 19:19 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:26:36PM -0200, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
> > > Subject: [PATCH v2 5/7] vsprintf: reduce code size by avoiding extra check
> > >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > >   15735       0       8   15743    3d7f lib/vsprintf.o-before
> > >   15719       0       8   15727    3d6f lib/vsprintf.o-minus-double-check
> > Please add a changelog in your patches, I mean something that
> > explain your practical change.
> 
> Read the subject and try not to go overboard.
> I think the changelog André provided is perfect.


It took me some time yesterday to understand how ip6_compressed_string()
does its job, hence it took me some time to ensure this patch is safe,
hence this reaction for something that didn't seem obvious to me at
a first glance.

But you're right actually, the problem was more in my homework than in
the changelog.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-02 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-02 17:26 [PATCH v2 5/7] vsprintf: reduce code size by avoiding extra check André Goddard Rosa
2009-11-02 18:19 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-02 18:29   ` Joe Perches
2009-11-02 19:32     ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2009-11-02 19:36       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-02 19:44         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-02 20:00           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-02 19:40   ` Ingo Molnar

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