linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: implement modules.order

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Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:21:26 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
CC:	sam@...nborg.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	notting@...hat.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, kay.sievers@...y.org,
	greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: implement modules.order

WANG Cong wrote:
>> +static inline unsigned int sdb_hash(const char *str)
>> +{
>> +        unsigned int hash = 0;
>> +        int c;
>> +
>> +        while ((c = *str++))
> 
> Maybe ` while ((c = *str++) != '\0') ` is better. ;)

Yeah, probably.  That hash function is copied & pasted mindlessly from web.

>> +		hash = c + (hash << 6) + (hash << 16) - hash;
>> +
>> +        return hash;
>> +}
>> +
>> +int main(int argc, char **argv)
>> +{
>> +	unsigned int nr_entries = 0;
>> +	struct hash_ent **hash_tbl;
>> +	char line[10240];
> 
> Needs to #define the magic number?

Or maybe write a wrapper function around fgets() to detect long lines
reliably.

>> +		while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), fp)) {
>> +			int len = strlen(line);
> 
> strlen returns 'size_t', which is unsigned.

It's capped by the magic number above but yeah size_t would be better.

> I think, you forgot to free(3) the memory you calloc(3)'ed and
> malloc(3)'ed above.

It's a simple program where whole body is in main().  Why bother?
What's the benefit of adding hash-table iterating free logic?

-- 
tejun
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