linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/16] (Resend) Use get

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Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:27:10 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] (Resend) Use get_personality()

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:59:44PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
> From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] (Resend) Use get_personality()

> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:14:03PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
> > > This patchset makes the macro get_personality function alike
> > > and teaches code to use get_personality() instead of explicit
> > > reference.
> > > 
> > > [I am sorry if you've received multiple copied of this, since
> > >  my git-send-email doesn't work well. ]
> > 
> > Yes, but why? "current->personality" is way more understandable than
> > your macro because task subject to dereference is very visible.
> 
> Use get_personality() can hide the task_struct internals a bit.

->personality is going to become something less trivial?
Sorry, but you sound like C++ people writing tons of pointless get/set
wrappers. And your get_personality() is worse -- C++ would write it as

	current->personality()

and again, even here, it's immediately visible that current task is
involved, not some other task.

> And I don't think using the macro to access it is less understandable.
> Since 'current' won't be NULL, whether the dereference is visible is
> not important.

It's not about NULL vs non-NULL at all.
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