From: Rusty Russell <rusty@linuxcare.com.au>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11)
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 22:01:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001123110203.EB8A8813D@halfway.linuxcare.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:04:53 BST." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011212300590.950-100000@penguin.homenet>
In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011212300590.950-100000@penguin.homenet> you write:
> > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:25:01 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > >
> > > Quick removal of unnecessary initialization to 0.
>
> Quite the contrary. The patch seems correct and useful to me. What do you
> think is wrong with it? (Linus accepted megabytes worth of the above in
> the past...)
What irritates about these monkey-see-monkey-do patches is that if I
initialize a variable to NULL, it's because my code actually relies on
it; I don't want that information eliminated.
Rusty.
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Hacking time.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-24 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-21 21:25 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2000-11-21 22:55 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-21 23:04 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-21 23:18 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-21 23:26 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-21 23:30 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-23 11:01 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2000-11-24 21:40 ` Vojtech Pavlik
[not found] ` <20001128031933.52DB981F5@halfway.linuxcare.com.au>
2000-11-28 8:59 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2000-11-24 23:13 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-25 12:01 ` Russell King
2000-11-25 11:50 ` Russell King
2000-11-25 23:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2000-11-22 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-22 11:40 ` Russell King
2000-11-28 20:58 David Hinds
2000-11-28 21:08 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-28 23:53 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29 3:23 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-29 3:35 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29 7:48 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-29 14:00 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29 14:08 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-29 16:16 Darryl Miles
2000-11-29 23:54 ` Russell King
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