From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263486AbTLDSrI (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:47:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263487AbTLDSrH (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:47:07 -0500 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:7838 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263486AbTLDSrA (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:47:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:46:56 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: David Hinds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Worst recursion in the kernel Message-ID: <20031204184656.GC14029@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20031203143122.GA6470@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20031203100709.B6625@sonic.net> <20031203190440.GA15857@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20031203225743.A25889@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20031204150846.GJ1117@admingilde.org> <20031204184032.D31675@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20031204184032.D31675@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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