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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Zhongping Tan (谭中平)" <Zhongping.Tan@spreadtrum.com>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Orson Zhai (翟京)" <Orson.Zhai@spreadtrum.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 答复: [RFC PATCH] char: misc: Init misc->list in a safe way
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:29:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170627062917.GA10376@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f919e212d5149e286422d58a5732356@SHMBX02.spreadtrum.com>


A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 02:02:13AM +0000, Zhongping Tan (谭中平) wrote:
> Ok, firstly we need to discuss the list usage, for list head we need
> do initialization, but for list node we don't need initialization at
> all.

I don't understand, why is your misc driver touching that field at all?
Do I need to go and make it "private" somehow?

> And for misc_list head, we use LIST_HEAD to define and initialize
> it. So I don't know why we put INIT_LIST_HEAD(&misc->list) in function
> misc_register, any bugs when without it?

Again, what is wrong with the code today?  What driver is this causing
problems for?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-27  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-26  9:31 [RFC PATCH] char: misc: Init misc->list in a safe way Orson Zhai
2017-06-26 10:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-26 11:48   ` Zhongping Tan (谭中平)
2017-06-26 12:28     ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]       ` <ca76fa84d77449bf84c2f3ddf29048a0@SHMBX02.spreadtrum.com>
2017-06-26 14:10         ` 答复: " Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-27  2:02           ` Zhongping Tan (谭中平)
2017-06-27  6:29             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-06-28  1:54               ` Orson Zhai
2017-06-28  5:18                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-28 10:34                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-28 11:21                     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-29  6:54                       ` Chunyan Zhang
2017-06-29  7:03                         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-29  7:30                           ` Chunyan Zhang

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