netdev - Re: Printing the driver name as part of the netdev watchdog message

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Message-ID: <20080709115010.388b7b1c@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:50:10 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	swise@...ngridcomputing.com, rdreier@...co.com,
	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Printing the driver name as part of the netdev watchdog message

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:20:49 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 10:56 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > I don't like the size_t... size_t is an abstraction to deal with
> > file sizes.... but there's nothing else wrong with using an int for
> > numbers.
> 
> <pedant_mode>
> 
> o size_t is an abstraction to deal with arbitrary sizes

it's an int. abstractions hurt. sorry.

> o an unnecessary <= 0 test exists

it's not. if it was a < test going to an unsigned makes the test go
away, but it's a <=.
And signed actually catches more bugs because unsigned makes things
silent.


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