From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: paulus@samba.org
Cc: xiaosuo@gmail.com, harvey.harrison@gmail.com,
linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: ppp: use {get,put}_unaligned_be{16,32}
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:37:10 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110107.203710.71119403.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110108031320.GA28926@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com>
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 14:13:20 +1100
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 05:15:34PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>
>> I have to say that every time I go read the header parsing code in the
>> PPP driver, I absolutely regret it.
>>
>> And Changli's patch fixes some of the readability problems.
>
> It's up to you whether you merge the patch or not, but surely you
> agree it needs more than a zero-line description?
It's entire sufficient to me.
He de-open-coded {get,put}_unaligned_be{16,32}() and when open-coding
is eliminated in this way a commit message of "Use {helper function
foo}." is more than enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-08 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-06 23:37 [PATCH v2] net: ppp: use {get,put}_unaligned_be{16,32} Changli Gao
2011-01-06 23:42 ` Harvey Harrison
2011-01-07 3:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-01-08 0:43 ` Changli Gao
2011-01-08 1:15 ` David Miller
2011-01-08 3:13 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-01-08 4:37 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-01-08 10:04 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-08 10:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-08 10:33 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-11 0:13 ` David Miller
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