From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Worst recursion in the kernel
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:46:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031204184656.GC14029@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031204184032.D31675@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, 4 December 2003 18:40:32 +0000, Russell King wrote:
>
> Oddly that's what I have been doing, but we've run out of time to
> completely eliminate the recursions in PCMCIA before the 2.6 brakes
> were turned on. Sure, if someone wants to try submitting a PCMCIA
> rewrite to Linus right now and wants to receive Linus' flames, go
> ahead. 8)
>
> So, for the time being, live with the fact that current automated
> program analysis detects the recusion. Inteligent human examination
> will tell you that it can't infinitely recurse.
Thank you! "Not yet" is perfectly acceptable to me. :)
Jörn
--
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good,
you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken quoted by Ken Iverson quoted by Jim Horning quoted by
Raph Levien, 1979
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-04 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-03 14:31 Jörn Engel
2003-12-03 18:07 ` David Hinds
2003-12-03 19:04 ` Jörn Engel
2003-12-03 22:57 ` Russell King
2003-12-03 23:08 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-03 23:36 ` David Hinds
2003-12-04 14:14 ` Jörn Engel
2003-12-04 15:08 ` Martin Waitz
2003-12-04 18:40 ` Russell King
2003-12-04 18:46 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2003-12-03 23:08 ` David Hinds
2003-12-04 13:47 ` Jörn Engel
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