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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	swise@opengridcomputing.com, rdreier@cisco.com,
	shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Printing the driver name as part of the netdev watchdog message
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:50:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080709115010.388b7b1c@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215627649.5553.265.camel@localhost>

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:20:49 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 10:56 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > I don't like the size_t... size_t is an abstraction to deal with
> > file sizes.... but there's nothing else wrong with using an int for
> > numbers.
> 
> <pedant_mode>
> 
> o size_t is an abstraction to deal with arbitrary sizes

it's an int. abstractions hurt. sorry.

> o an unnecessary <= 0 test exists

it's not. if it was a < test going to an unsigned makes the test go
away, but it's a <=.
And signed actually catches more bugs because unsigned makes things
silent.


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-09 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-06 20:08 Printing the driver name as part of the netdev watchdog message Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-06 22:53 ` David Miller
2008-07-06 23:56   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-07  1:51     ` Wang Chen
2008-07-07  3:59       ` David Miller
2008-07-07  4:34         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-07  4:49           ` David Miller
2008-07-07  4:57             ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-07  6:44               ` David Miller
2008-07-07 15:23                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-07  1:08   ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-07  1:22     ` David Miller
2008-07-07  1:53       ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 17:05         ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-07 22:45       ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-07 22:57         ` David Miller
2008-07-07 23:14           ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-07 23:44             ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-08  0:10               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-08 19:13             ` Steve Wise
2008-07-08 21:31               ` David Miller
2008-07-08 21:47                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-08 21:57                   ` David Miller
2008-07-08 23:48                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-08 23:53                       ` David Miller
2008-07-09  0:17                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-09  1:44                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-09  3:16                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-09 17:20                             ` Joe Perches
2008-07-09 17:56                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-09 18:20                                 ` Joe Perches
2008-07-09 18:50                                   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-07-09 18:28                                 ` Ben Hutchings

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