Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:39:22 +0100
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] explicitly mark recursion count
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:02:05AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> Add recursion markers to teach automated test tools how bad documented
> recursions really are.  Currently, there is only a single such too that
> can use the information and there is always the danger of documentation
> and reality getting out of sync.  But until there's a better tool...
 
> +/**
> + * RECURSION:	100
> + * STEP:	register_proc_table
> + */

This is too ugly for words ;-/  Who will maintain that data, anyway?
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