linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] device_cgroup: make may

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Message-ID: <20121203190104.GC32112@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Dec 2012 14:01:04 -0500
From:	Aristeu Rozanski <aris@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] device_cgroup: make may_access() stronger

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 09:44:14AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> I kinda dislike this.  This isn't a performanc critical path where we
> must try our best to shave off a few condition checks.  There's no
> reason to encode the test like this.  Please just spell the conditions
> out in code rather than trying to build a magic series of equality
> tests which somehow ends up spewing out the correct results.

sure, will do. but this is not "magic", that's just logic simplification.

-- 
Aristeu

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