From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] RFC: Typesafe callbacks
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:53:10 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801220751180.2957@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801221816.19594.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-22 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 9:46 [PATCH 0/6] RFC: Typesafe callbacks Rusty Russell
2008-01-20 9:47 ` [PATCH 1/6] typesafe: Convert stop_machine and callers Rusty Russell
2008-01-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] typesafe: kthread_create and kthread_run Rusty Russell
2008-01-20 9:50 ` [PATCH 3/6] typesafe: convert kthread users Rusty Russell
2008-01-20 9:51 ` [PATCH 4/6] typesafe: cast_if_type to allow macros functions which take more than one type Rusty Russell
2008-01-20 9:54 ` [PATCH 5/6] typesafe: request_irq and devm_request_irq Rusty Russell
2008-01-20 9:57 ` [PATCH 6/6] typesafe: timers Rusty Russell
2008-01-20 11:25 ` [PATCH 2/6] typesafe: kthread_create and kthread_run Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-20 12:07 ` Bert Wesarg
2008-01-20 16:24 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-01-20 16:43 ` Bert Wesarg
2008-01-20 22:04 ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-21 7:56 ` Bert Wesarg
2008-01-20 12:56 ` [PATCH 0/6] RFC: Typesafe callbacks Tejun Heo
2008-01-20 13:00 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-20 22:17 ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-21 11:33 ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-21 12:38 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-21 23:27 ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-21 23:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-22 7:16 ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-22 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-01-22 4:20 ` Andi Kleen
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