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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, andi@firstfloor.org, srostedt@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] globmatch() helper function
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:22:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49492733.9000108@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081217160417.18507.qmail@science.horizon.com>

Hello,

George Spelvin wrote:
> Do people think that would be, on balance, better?  It would be plenty
> good enough for the blacklist application.

Just pass a depth parameter and trigger WARN_ON() and return -EINVAL
when it exceeds ten.  It's a five minute change and should be enough
for kernel usages.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-17 10:42 [RFC] globmatch() helper function George Spelvin
2008-12-17 13:28 ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-17 15:15   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-17 15:47     ` Steven Rostedt
2008-12-17 16:15       ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-18  8:00       ` George Spelvin
2008-12-18  8:55         ` George Spelvin
2008-12-18 19:53           ` Casey Dahlin
2008-12-18 21:53             ` George Spelvin
2008-12-17 16:04     ` George Spelvin
2008-12-17 16:13       ` Steven Rostedt
2008-12-17 16:22       ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-12-17 16:31         ` Steven Rostedt
2008-12-17 16:33           ` Tejun Heo
2008-12-17 16:36             ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-17 16:45               ` Tejun Heo
2008-12-17 16:37             ` Steven Rostedt
2008-12-17 16:51               ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-17 16:54                 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-12-17 15:37   ` George Spelvin

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