Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Makes lguest's irq handler typesafe | Date | Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:27:48 +1100 |
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On Saturday 19 January 2008 15:08:28 Tejun Heo wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: > > There are three possibilities: (1) force everyone to use void *, (2) > > force everyone to be type-correct, (3) allow both with some tricks. > > Currently we're on (1). For kthread, with only dozens of users, I chose > > (2) (very simple, easy to understand). I think for widespread things > > like timer and interrupt handlers, I think (3) is the right way to go. > > Yeah, during transition, we definitely want (3).
Hi Tejun.
I'm thinking an open-ended transition. I don't see a big reason to churn working code, since we can easily support both.
> Yeah, I think we need a good flame war to determine our > heading and converting timer shouldn't take too much of your time, right?
Insightful comment, you've convinced me!
Thanks, Rusty.
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