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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module rewrite 6/20: streq
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 04:01, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Name: streq implementation
> Author: Rusty Russell
> Status: Trivial
> Depends: Misc/strcspn.patch.gz
> 
> D: I can't believe that after all these years I still make the "sense
> D: of strcmp" mistake.  So it's time to reintroduce my favorite macro.

So you replace something all the competent programmers understand with
some weird Rusty specific macro that just makes it harder still for
other people to follow kernel code.

Why ?