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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] Add macros similar to min/max/min_t/max_t.
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:49:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47DAAC9E.1060001@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205513171.27712.1.camel@brick>

Harvey Harrison wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 09:34 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:18:45 -0700 Harvey Harrison wrote:
> 
>> Where is some blurb/comment about what "clamp" means/does?
>> min/max are well understood, but clamp?  Is that a shop tool?
>> I think I have a few out in my garage.
>>
>> So can we have some blurb here to explain clamp(), clamp_t(),
>> and clamp_val()?
>>
>> (kernel-doc preferred, but not required) e.g:
> 
>> /**
>>  * clamp - returns a value that is restricted between min & max inclusive
>>  * @val: current value
>>  * @min: minimum value of the clamping region
>>  * @max: maximum value of the clamping region
>>  */
>>
>> and explain the differences in clamp/clamp_t/clamp_val...
>>
>>
> 
> Sure, I'll do that..does kernel-doc actually work for macros?

Yes, it does.

-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-14 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-14  5:18 [PATCH 01/10] Add macros similar to min/max/min_t/max_t Harvey Harrison
2008-03-14 16:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-03-14 16:46   ` Harvey Harrison
2008-03-14 16:49     ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2008-03-14 17:06       ` Harvey Harrison
2008-03-14 17:11         ` Randy Dunlap

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