From: joe@perches.com
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Pankaj Bharadiya <pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@intel.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] treewide conversion to sizeof_member() for v5.5-rc1
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2019 17:40:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ad884f80c538efabc5c2442517c75c9@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgnaWN1V2G1zyk8zqTVQBdHBBHcdkB-rek5z2VeRq4nmA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2019-12-08 17:19, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> maybe it's
> the 13-year old in me, but "sizeof_member()" just makes me go "that's
> puerile.
The 13 year old in you could grow up one day. Most 13 year olds don't
even know that word btw.
> I _can_ see why we'd want to standardize on one of the tree versions
> we have, but I can't really see the problem with the existing #define
> that we have, and that is used (admittedly not all that much):
> sizeof_field()
Call it what the standard calls it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-08 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-07 19:48 Kees Cook
2019-12-08 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-08 23:40 ` joe [this message]
2019-12-08 23:53 ` Linus Torvalds
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