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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
	geert@linux-m68k.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, schwab@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer overflow
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 00:44:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <482CBCCB.8070101@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805151406030.3019@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On 15-05-08 23:15, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Talking about cleanups, why the *hell* does print_fn_descriptor_symbol() 
> take an "unsigned long", when every single user would want to give it a 
> pointer?
> 
> Would somebody please want to move that cast into the macro (or better 
> yet, make it an inline function that takes a 'void *'), and remove all the 
> casts from the callers?

[ ... ]

> +		print_fn_descriptor_symbol("calling  %s()\n",
> +				(unsigned long) call);


And while that person is at it, could he or she please remove the silly 
() from the "foo+0x0/0x1234()" (or the "foo+0x0/0x1234 [bar]()" or the 
"0x12345678()").

Rene.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-15 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-14 15:44 [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer overflow Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-15 17:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-15 18:05   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-15 19:47     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-05-15 20:22       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-15 20:49         ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-15 21:15           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-15 21:45             ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-15 23:41               ` [PATCH] Add a void * alternative to print_fn_descriptor_symbol() Abhijit Menon-Sen
2008-05-16  1:47               ` [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer overflow Linus Torvalds
2008-05-15 22:44             ` Rene Herman [this message]
2008-05-16  3:29           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-16  4:17             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-16  7:00           ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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