Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760281AbXKOHtn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:49:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757410AbXKOHte (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:49:34 -0500 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:3636 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756466AbXKOHtd (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:49:33 -0500 From: Herbert Xu To: paulus@samba.org (Paul Mackerras) Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news Cc: davem@davemloft.net, hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@suse.de, mucci@cs.utk.edu, eranian@hpl.hp.com, wcohen@redhat.com, robert.richter@amd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org Organization: Core In-Reply-To: <18235.45103.397753.321892@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> X-Newsgroups: apana.lists.os.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.4-20040225 ("Benbecula") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.17-rc4 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:48:13 +0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1046 Lines: 26 Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Well you must mean something different by "strong typing" from the > rest of us. Strong typing means that the compiler can check that you > have passed in the correct types of arguments, but the compiler > doesn't have any visibility into what structures are valid in netlink > messages. That's strong static typing. Netlink is 90% strong static typing plus 10% strong dynamic typing. That is, it'll tell you at run-time if you give it the wrong netlink attribute. The types within each netlink attribute is checked at compile time. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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/