From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Borkmann Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] net: add trim helper and convert users Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:06:28 +0100 Message-ID: <52D900A4.9020509@redhat.com> References: <1389918519-23779-1-git-send-email-hannes@stressinduktion.org> <1389918519-23779-3-git-send-email-hannes@stressinduktion.org> <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D45EAC0@AcuExch.aculab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'Hannes Frederic Sowa'" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Jakub Zawadzki , Eric Dumazet , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" To: David Laight Return-path: In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D45EAC0@AcuExch.aculab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 01/17/2014 10:52 AM, David Laight wrote: > From: Hannes Frederic Sowa > ... >> +/** >> + * trim - perform a reciprocal multiplication in order to "clamp" a >> + * value into range [0, ep_ro), where the upper interval >> + * endpoint is right-open. This is useful, e.g. for accessing >> + * a index of an array containing ep_ro elements, for example. >> + * Think of it as sort of modulus, only that the result isn't >> + * that of modulo. ;) >> + * More: http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/divide.html > > It isn't appropriate to put urls into code comments (or commit messages). > They are very likely to get out of date. Then please grep the git log for some references/urls, you'll find plenty. This link is just a pointer for people interested to read some more background; there's no need to overly elaborate in the kernel doc right here. Thanks ! > David > > >