Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263869AbUFBThX (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:37:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263885AbUFBThX (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:37:23 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:47282 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263869AbUFBThW (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:37:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:37:20 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Davide Libenzi , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] explicitly mark recursion count Message-ID: <20040602193720.GQ12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <200406011929.i51JTjGO006174@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> <20040602131623.GA23017@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040602182019.GC30427@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040602185832.GA2874@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040602185832.GA2874@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 13 On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:58:32PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > Note the "in the most general case" part. You can get things right if > you make some assumptions and those assumptions are actually valid. > In my case the assumptions are: > 1. all relevant function pointers are stuffed into some struct and Wrong. They are often passed as arguments to generic helpers, without being ever put into any structures. - 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/