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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] epoll remove debugging code
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:12:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090129001251.7a39d957.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901271253010.20262@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:54:58 -0800 (PST) Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:

> static int ep_eventpoll_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  {
> -	struct eventpoll *ep = file->private_data;
> -
> -	if (ep)
> -		ep_free(ep);
> +	if (file->private_data)
> +		ep_free((struct eventpoll *) file->private_data);
>  

The old version was better, IMO.

You could just do

	if (file->private_data)
		ep_free(file->private_data);

but personally, I do like to see the purported type mentioned in there
somewhere.  But preferably not in a typecast.

Oh well.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-29  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-27 20:54 Davide Libenzi
2009-01-29  8:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-01-29 18:18   ` Davide Libenzi
2009-01-30  0:51 [patch 2/2] epoll: " Davide Libenzi

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