From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754969AbYGXS4e (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:56:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752858AbYGXS4Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:56:25 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41364 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752687AbYGXS4Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:56:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:53:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Steven Whitehouse cc: Alexander Viro , Evgeniy Dushistov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: parser: add const to parser token table (resend) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1216916533.5376.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Btw, the reason I didn't even look at this at first is that there is no > such thing as a "parser" in the kernel, so I just dismissed the patch as > being to somebody else (ie a sparse thing). Just to clarify: there obviously _is_ a "parser", but it's at such a low level that tagging by it doesn't much help my mental picture, when there are other projects I'm involved with where the "parser" is a much more integral and major deal. Linus