From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>,
dwalker@fifo99.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 02/12] remove clocksource inline functions
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090730214836.GB15780@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28082.1248956470@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
> You know that a priori because you're familiar with that code. But there's
> another use case: An idiot monkey like myself manages to break the kernel
> *again* in some part of the kernel they're totally unfamiliar with, and
> they need to discover for themselves that timekeeping.c is the only user.
>
> (Of course, in another 5-6 years I'll probably have broken something in
> every part of the kernel and whinged at Andrew about it, and that argument
> won't apply anymore.. ;)
Andthe poor grepping monkey can be sure that everyone used the useless
wrapper exactly how? If you want to help people with grepping rename
the method from read to clocksource_read..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-30 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200907291457.n6TEvDAt003701@d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
2009-07-29 15:32 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-29 15:36 ` Will Newton
2009-07-29 16:27 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-29 16:44 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-30 12:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-07-30 21:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-07-31 11:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-08-03 8:10 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-29 15:52 ` Daniel Walker
2009-07-29 16:37 ` Martin Schwidefsky
[not found] <200907291415.n6TEFJkA019086@d06av05.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
2009-07-29 14:44 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-29 14:57 ` Daniel Walker
2009-07-29 13:41 [RFC][patch 00/12] clocksource / timekeeping rework V2 Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-29 13:41 ` [RFC][patch 02/12] remove clocksource inline functions Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-29 14:15 ` Daniel Walker
2009-07-30 21:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-30 21:05 ` john stultz
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