linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][patch 02/12] remove clocksource inline functions

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Message-ID: <20090730214836.GB15780@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:36 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Will Newton <will.newton@...il.com>, dwalker@...o99.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 02/12] remove clocksource inline functions

> You know that a priori because you're familiar with that code. But there's
> another use case: An idiot monkey like myself manages to break the kernel
> *again* in some part of the kernel they're totally unfamiliar with, and
> they need to discover for themselves that timekeeping.c is the only user.
> 
> (Of course, in another 5-6 years I'll probably have broken something in
> every part of the kernel and whinged at Andrew about it, and that argument
> won't apply anymore.. ;)

Andthe poor grepping monkey can be sure that everyone used the useless
wrapper exactly how?  If you want to help people with grepping rename
the method from read to clocksource_read..

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