Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752321AbZG3Vsl (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751611AbZG3Vsk (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:40 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:44766 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751143AbZG3Vsk (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:36 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Martin Schwidefsky , Will Newton , dwalker@fifo99.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , john stultz Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 02/12] remove clocksource inline functions Message-ID: <20090730214836.GB15780@infradead.org> References: <200907291457.n6TEvDAt003701@d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> <20090729173231.012d0b89@skybase> <87a5b0800907290836n6bb6da36tb0124e6d4f0673ea@mail.gmail.com> <20090729182754.2361631b@skybase> <28082.1248956470@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <28082.1248956470@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 18 > You know that a priori because you're familiar with that code. But there's > another use case: An idiot monkey like myself manages to break the kernel > *again* in some part of the kernel they're totally unfamiliar with, and > they need to discover for themselves that timekeeping.c is the only user. > > (Of course, in another 5-6 years I'll probably have broken something in > every part of the kernel and whinged at Andrew about it, and that argument > won't apply anymore.. ;) Andthe poor grepping monkey can be sure that everyone used the useless wrapper exactly how? If you want to help people with grepping rename the method from read to clocksource_read.. -- 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/