Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263980AbUFBT5j (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:57:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264019AbUFBT5j (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:57:39 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:55510 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263980AbUFBT5Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:57:24 -0400 Message-Id: <200406021955.i52JtZ7E006537@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , 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 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:37:20 BST." <20040602193720.GQ12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200406011929.i51JTjGO006174@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> <20040602131623.GA23017@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040602182019.GC30427@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040602185832.GA2874@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040602193720.GQ12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1408578314P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:55:35 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1166 Lines: 36 --==_Exmh_1408578314P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:37:20 BST, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk = said: > Wrong. They are often passed as arguments to generic helpers, without > being ever put into any structures. At least those can *hopefully* be automatically detected by looking at th= e function's definition. Are there any known cases where they're "passed through" from caller to generic_a to generic_b which ends up calling the function via pointer, or is it restricted to caller, generic_a, *(pointer= )? --==_Exmh_1408578314P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFAvjC3cC3lWbTT17ARAsmwAKCMKM7GTu8adyDE/ERiMH7rqw93jQCg77PX hcYyUNo9ioByNymYXgLbbvA= =uIfb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1408578314P-- - 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/