Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754036AbYAVPxj (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:53:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751786AbYAVPxb (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:53:31 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:49531 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751276AbYAVPxb (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:53:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:53:10 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Rusty Russell cc: Tejun Heo , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] RFC: Typesafe callbacks In-Reply-To: <200801221816.19594.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Message-ID: References: <200801202046.14746.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <200801221027.15002.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <200801221816.19594.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 604 Lines: 17 On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Rusty Russell wrote: > > If we can stomach it the effect is nice, but the version which simply > allows pointer correctness (rather than trying to do unsigned long too) is > less bletcherous. I'd suggest trying to get by with just the pointer version for now. But we know whom to turn to when we need bletcherousness. Linus -- 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/