Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751712AbZGaOty (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:49:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751458AbZGaOtx (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:49:53 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:41847 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751389AbZGaOtw (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:49:52 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Christoph Hellwig 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 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:36 EDT." <20090730214836.GB15780@infradead.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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> <20090730214836.GB15780@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1249041022_20572P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:50:22 -0400 Message-ID: <20746.1249041022@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1413 Lines: 38 --==_Exmh_1249041022_20572P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:36 EDT, Christoph Hellwig said: > > 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.. Even better. ;) --==_Exmh_1249041022_20572P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFKctp+cC3lWbTT17ARAlHhAKCLXtejq7xgjvBmWkH2ILNOc8jwhwCfUtx5 0m2yTW4MP0uAkKcBAMTyG4o= =c8Cs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1249041022_20572P-- -- 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/