linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove_arg

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Message-Id: <20070307144101.f97cfa53.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 7 Mar 2007 14:41:01 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Petr Tesa__ík <ptesarik@...e.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove_arg_zero() rewrite

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:09:57 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 15:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > I mean.... what the hell?
> > 
> > As you appear to have managed to work out what the sorry thing is trying to
> > do, would you have time to simply rip it out and completely rewrite it,
> > including a nice comment telling the world what this function's function is?
> > 
> > Because what we have there is beyond repairing.
> 
> Something like so?
> Boots uml seemingly without errors.
> 
> ---
> Rewrite remove_arg_zero() to be more parseable by untwisted minds.
> 

Sorry, Nick already had a go at this:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc2/2.6.21-rc2-mm2/broken-out/exec-fix-remove_arg_zero.patch

But your patch has a nice comment and has to be better ;)

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