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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: simplify sync_test_bit()
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:20:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47DAA5C2.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47DA93D0.4050708@goop.org>

>#define sync_test_bit(nr, addr) test_bit(nr, addr)
>
>would be better, but seems reasonable to me. Or even an inline for 
>consistency.

I'm usually intentionally using just the names, without parameters and
not as inline, in such alias definitions so that in case the name gets used
as a function pointer (arguably unlikely here) there's not going to be
any missing definition or duplicate function instantiation. But from a
functionality point of view, either of the alternatives you suggest is
of course as good.

Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-14 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-14  7:56 [PATCH] x86: simplify sync_test_bit() Jan Beulich
2008-03-14 15:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-14 15:20   ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2008-03-14 15:43     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-21 11:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-22 20:27   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-26  7:27     ` Ingo Molnar

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