linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] clocksource: Fix opencoded cpumask_any_but() in clocksource_verify_choose

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Message-ID: <87wm9knf2n.ffs@tglx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:03:44 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>, Stephen
 Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] clocksource: Fix opencoded cpumask_any_but() in
 clocksource_verify_choose_cpus()

On Mon, Jun 09 2025 at 10:33, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 12:03:23PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 07 2025 at 10:11, Yury Norov wrote:
>> 
>> Why are you so obsessed to slap 'Fix' on every subject line?
>> 
>> This fixes absolutely nothing at all.
>
> Opencoding helpers is an error, isn't? That's why 'fix'.

It's not. It's functionally correct, so there is no error. It's an
oversight in terms of code efficiency, not more.