From: DJ Barrow <dj.barrow@asitatech.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: novice coding in /linux/net/ipv4/util.c From: DJ Barrow <dj.barrow@asitatech.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:19:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020422171719Z314282-22651+13900@vger.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020422151025Z314220-22651+13849@vger.kernel.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <p73it6j8xwl.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de>
Sounds reasonable to me.
On Monday 22 April 2002 18:07, Andi Kleen wrote:
> DJ Barrow <dj.barrow@asitatech.com> writes:
> > This textbook peice of novice coding which has existed since 2.2.14.
>
> Even earlier I think
>
> BTW do you call libresolv novice coding too ?
>
> > For those who can't spot the error, please note that this function is
> > returning a static string, excellent stuff if you are hoping to reuse the
> > same function like the following
> > printk("%s %s\n",in_ntoa(addr1),in_ntoa(addr2));
>
> That is why most of networking uses the NIPQUAD macro instead.
>
> Best would be probably to convert the few remaining users of in_ntoa
> to NIPQUAD and drop this function.
>
> -Andi
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2002-04-22 17:07 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-22 17:19 ` DJ Barrow [this message]
2002-04-23 14:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-22 15:12 DJ Barrow
2002-04-22 15:48 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-22 16:03 ` DJ Barrow
2002-04-22 16:21 ` Ben Greear
2002-04-22 20:32 ` Olaf Titz
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