linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Consolidate init

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Date:   Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:18:56 -1000
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Consolidate init_task handling

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 5:31 AM, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> It doesn't seem useful to have the init_task in a header file rather than
> in a normal source file.  We could consolidate init_task handling instead.
> Do want to do this?  If so, this is probably something we'd want to do at
> the end of the merge window, though not necessarily this one.
>
> Here's a series of patches that consolidate init_task handling:

Looks sane on the face of it, but I'll take a better look when I'm back home.

My one big WTF moment I already had was about your descriptions,
though. "Unroll"?

To quote the Princess Bride: "You keep using that word. I do not think
it means what you think it means".

Or at least it's a very unusual use of that word. Why doesn't the
explanation just say what it does: "move", and say from where to where
("from macro to definition" or something)?

Or "remove macro XYZ, expanding it in place", or something? To me,
"unroll" has a completely different meaning in computers.

             Linus