From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] smaller kernels
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:56:05 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020325165605.7d9c1d6e.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C982824.60091B4A@zip.com.au>
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:11:48 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> wrote:
> This is the result of a search-and-destroy mission against
> oft-repeated strings in the kernel text. These come about
> due to the toolchain's inability to common up strings between
> compilation units.
The name is horrible. BUG() stands out: perhaps "BUG_LITE()"?
And I'm not sure DaveM'll appreciate this:
> static inline char *__skb_pull(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
> {
> skb->len-=len;
> - if (skb->len < skb->data_len)
> - BUG();
> return skb->data+=len;
> }
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-25 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-20 6:11 Andrew Morton
2002-03-25 5:56 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2002-03-25 5:52 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-25 19:49 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-25 6:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-25 7:09 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-25 22:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-03-26 0:12 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-25 23:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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