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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch]fastboot: remove duplicate unpack_to_rootfs()
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:15:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080813091536.GI23417@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac9c93b10808130111ua3d4630v63f7d3754d2ca12e@mail.gmail.com>


* Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/8/13, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>:
> >
> >  * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> >  > the dry_run variable is now unused in unpack_to_rootfs() and could be
> >  > eliminated.
> >
> >  also, while we are materially touching init/initramfs.c, that file has
> >  collected a few uglies in the past few years, checkpatch --file says:
> >
> >   total: 7 errors, 7 warnings, 3 checks, 562 lines checked
> >
> >  it has a few other problems as well that can be seen if you look at the
> >  file. Unused macros:
> >
> >   /* Diagnostic functions (stubbed out) */
> >   #define Assert(cond,msg)
> >   #define Trace(x)
> >   #define Tracev(x)
> >   #define Tracevv(x)
> >   #define Tracec(c,x)
> >   #define Tracecv(c,x)
> >
> >   #define STATIC static
> >   #define INIT __init
> >
> These are not really unused. A few lines later it reads:
> 
> #include "../src/inflate.c"
> 
> These macros are used within inflate.c

oh, i _knew_ i saw this zlib ugliness sometime in the past.

> (and perhaps the inclusion of inflate.c is not a good idea, maybe this 
> should be in lib.a note that inflate.c is also included in 
> init/do_mounts_rd.c; fortunately this is all init code (which is 
> probably why include was used in the first place))

definitely. It's a different patch though.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-13  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-13  6:07 Shaohua Li
2008-08-13  7:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-13  7:52   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-13  8:06     ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-13  9:14       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-13  8:11     ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2008-08-13  9:15       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-08-13  8:00   ` Li, Shaohua
2008-08-13  9:26   ` Li, Shaohua
2009-03-15 18:23 [2.6.30] What's in the async boot tree Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-15 18:25 ` [PATCH] fastboot: remove duplicate unpack_to_rootfs() Arjan van de Ven

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