Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:02:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:02:47 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-022-092.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.22.92]:24206 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:02:46 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Thunder from the hill Subject: Re: [RFC] Raceless module interface Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:09:24 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Rusty Russell , Roman Zippel , Jamie Lokier , Alexander Viro , References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1182 Lines: 34 On Friday 13 September 2002 15:52, Thunder from the hill wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Friday 13 September 2002 08:51, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > [cool code] > > > > Why is that different from: > > > > [more code] > > Because in your example, my_module_start() would not be able to run > separately That's obvious. What hasn't been shown is why that's necessary. Note: this is the *real* meaning of "begs the question". You answered my question "why is it necessary the these to be separate" with "because if they were not separate, then you could not use them separately". In logical terms, it amounts to "A because A". This is a logical falacy called "begging the question". When people say "begs the question", 99% of the time they really mean "invites the question". As an exercise, try scanning lkml for "From includes Torvalds" and "begs". Linus studied debating ;-) -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/