Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263502AbUC3CHX (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:07:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263505AbUC3CHX (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:07:23 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:10655 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263502AbUC3CHW (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:07:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:07:00 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Matthew Dobson , Paul Jackson , LKML , raybry@sgi.com, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] mask ADT: new mask.h file [2/22] Message-ID: <20040330020700.GC791@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Matthew Dobson , Paul Jackson , LKML , raybry@sgi.com, Andrew Morton References: <20040329041253.5cd281a5.pj@sgi.com> <1080606618.6742.89.camel@arrakis> <20040330012744.GZ791@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040330012744.GZ791@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 18 On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 05:27:44PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > ... and all other operations unmodified. In all honesty, the difference > in overhead and/or implementation complexity between the two invariants > is miniscule. I don't care who wants what per se; if you want to change > that invariant, it's not my concern what the invariant is so long as > it's respected and there's a coherent notion of what people want it to > be. Given some of your statements, I wonder sometimes if you actually > understand the "don't care" invariant. Sorry, that was directed at Paul. -- wli - 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/