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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:56:16 +1100 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 13:30 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > I'll stop making inane arguments if you stop bashing arguments I > didn't make. :) I said the helpers were useful for multiplication (by > which I meant both signed and unsigned) and, to a lesser extent, for > signed addition and subtraction. > > I don't believe I even tried to justify usub_overflow as anything > other than an extremely minor optimization that probably isn't > worthwhile. Also how much of the problem is simply that the function signature (naming and choice of arguments) just plain sucks ? Cheers, Ben. -- 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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