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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:19:11 +0100 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Cc: paulus@...ba.org (Paul Mackerras), davem@...emloft.net, hch@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, gregkh@...e.de, mucci@...utk.edu, eranian@....hp.com, wcohen@...hat.com, robert.richter@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andi@...stfloor.org Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> writes: > That's strong static typing. Netlink is 90% strong static > typing plus 10% strong dynamic typing. That is, it'll tell > you at run-time if you give it the wrong netlink attribute. Well it tells you EINVAL no matter what is wrong. That's roughly similar to a compiler whose only error message is 'WRONG'. Or the ed school of error reporting. That makes any checking it does barely useful. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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