From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:55:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:55:33 -0400 Received: from cx97923-a.phnx3.az.home.com ([24.9.112.194]:8423 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:55:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3B8D0267.83C11572@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 07:55:35 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Herbert Rosmanith CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: min/max status? In-Reply-To: <200108290911.f7T9Btb06402@wildsau.idv-edu.uni-linz.ac.at> 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 Herbert Rosmanith wrote: > > hi, > > I'd like to know of min/max will stay in kernel.h in their current (and > fucking ugly, IMO) form or if they eventually will be moved to something > like type_min() type_max(). > > I've read a lot of emails contra the 3-parm. min/max macros. Does our > supreme deity listen to HIS followers or is this more like a > "le etat est moi" --- "der kernel bin ich" question? If you are so blindly opposed to the min/max thing, just use if (x > z) { go do thing } else { go do other thing } Otherwise, get over it and lets move on. Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear