LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>,
	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RESEND] C99 initializers for DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE()
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:34:00 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811100932500.3468@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081110093026.fe4bf90e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>



On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> I already have a patch queued which does this
> (linux-ratelimith-fixed-missing-initializer-warning.patch).  I sent it
> to Linus on October 29 and he did not apply it, so I parked it for 2.6.29.

I just don't see the point of the patch at all. It doesn't fix anything, 
and it just makes the code bigger and uglier. We have tons of other 
simple initializers that aren't C99, and we're not going to convert them 
either. 

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-10 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-04 20:14 Bart Van Assche
2008-11-10 12:43 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-11-10 17:16   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-11-10 17:30     ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-10 17:34       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-11-10 18:06         ` Bart Van Assche

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=alpine.LFD.2.00.0811100932500.3468@nehalem.linux-foundation.org \
    --to=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=bart.vanassche@gmail.com \
    --cc=hidave.darkstar@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=randy.dunlap@oracle.com \
    --subject='Re: [PATCH][RESEND] C99 initializers for DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE()' \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).