Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759737AbXKOIT0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:19:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755706AbXKOITS (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:19:18 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:35356 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751753AbXKOITR (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:19:17 -0500 To: Herbert Xu Cc: paulus@samba.org (Paul Mackerras), 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 Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news From: Andi Kleen References: <18235.45103.397753.321892@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:19:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Herbert Xu's message of "Thu\, 15 Nov 2007 15\:48\:13 +0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 19 Herbert Xu writes: > 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. Well it tells you EINVAL no matter what is wrong. That's roughly similar to a compiler whose only error message is 'WRONG'. Or the ed school of error reporting. That makes any checking it does barely useful. -Andi - 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/