From: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: dsaxena@plexity.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
wim@iguana.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Watchdog timer for Intel IXP4xx CPUs
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:48:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511224811.GA31900@buici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A155AC.5090009@pobox.com>
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 06:37:32PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Deepak Saxena wrote:
> >On May 11 2004, at 14:33, Andrew Morton was caught saying:
> >+#ifdef CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
> >+static int nowayout = 1;
> >+#else
> >+static int nowayout = 0;
> >+#endif
> >+static int heartbeat = 60; /* (secs) Default is 1 minute */
> >+static unsigned long wdt_status = 0;
> >+static unsigned long boot_status = 0;
>
> Wastes bss(?) space to explicitly zero statics.
BTW, BSS is the stuff that is zeroed automatically. Explicitly
zeroing a variable is a waste of DATA and requires space in the
executable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-11 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-11 21:22 Deepak Saxena
2004-05-11 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 21:50 ` Deepak Saxena
2004-05-11 22:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-11 22:48 ` Marc Singer [this message]
2004-05-11 23:02 ` Deepak Saxena
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