public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: radix tree safety
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:24:40 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44165398.2090900@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060313161435.30c2d865.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet) wrote:

>>If we don't want the tests, fine, but it might make sense to fix the
>>interface documentation, at least, to note that "tag" is not an
>>arbitrary integer value.
>>
> 
> 
> Sure, we can live with the runtime cost of a documentation fix ;)

How about making the code self-documenting and more useful at the same
time: put RADIX_TREE_TAGS in radix-tree.h, and call it RADIX_TREE_MAX_TAGS

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com 

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-14  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-13 22:43 RFC: radix tree safety Jonathan Corbet
2006-03-13 22:55 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-13 23:50   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-14  0:01     ` Jonathan Corbet
2006-03-14  0:14       ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-14  5:24         ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-03-16 17:13           ` Jonathan Corbet
2006-03-17  0:41             ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-13 23:03 ` Randy.Dunlap

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=44165398.2090900@yahoo.com.au \
    --to=nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au \
    --cc=akpm@osdl.org \
    --cc=corbet@lwn.net \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox