From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Add sparse "__iomem" infrastructure to check PCI address usage
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:31:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040913183126.GA19399@thundrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409121945500.13491@ppc970.osdl.org>
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Salut,
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:00:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Generally, you shouldn't ever use __force in a driver or anything like
> that.
Why don't we send the __force attribute into some #ifdef that is never
defined unless you're in arch specific code? This way we'd prevent
stupid people from doing stupid things.
Tonnerre
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-13 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200409110726.i8B7QTGn009468@hera.kernel.org>
2004-09-13 0:26 ` Add sparse "__iomem" infrastructure to check PCI address usage Jeff Garzik
2004-09-13 0:50 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-13 2:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-13 2:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-13 3:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-13 14:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-13 14:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-13 18:31 ` Tonnerre [this message]
2004-09-13 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-13 18:51 ` viro
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