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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: OLPC: speed up device tree creation during boot (v2)
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:21:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE0B54E.6000101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101114095013.GB24206@elte.hu>

On 11/14/2010 01:50 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> It's being frowned upon btw, because it's easy to overlook (and for other reasons) - 
> please dont use statics inside functions - please put them in front of the function 
> or further up into file scope.
> 

What?  What is wrong with static variables in functions?  It really
doesn't seem to be a good idea to make them file-scope if they don't
need to be.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-15  4:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12  5:45 [PATCH 3/3] x86: OLPC: speed up device tree creation during boot (v2) Andres Salomon
2010-11-12  7:48 ` Milton Miller
2010-11-12  8:27   ` Andres Salomon
2010-11-14  9:50     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-15  4:21       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-11-15  7:02         ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-15 17:43           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-17  6:12             ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: OLPC: speed up device tree creation during boot (v3) Andres Salomon
2010-11-29 23:39               ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: OLPC: speed up device tree creation during boot (v4) Andres Salomon
2010-12-16  2:58                 ` [tip:x86/olpc] x86, olpc: Speed up device tree creation during boot tip-bot for Andres Salomon
2010-11-18  8:34             ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: OLPC: speed up device tree creation during boot (v2) Ingo Molnar
2010-11-18 11:02               ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-18 15:04                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-18 17:41                   ` Andres Salomon
2010-11-18 17:48                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-19 20:24                       ` Andres Salomon
2010-12-23 11:57               ` Ingo Molnar

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