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Re: [PATCH v1 3/7] test_hexdump: go through all possible lengths of buffer

From Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v1 3/7] test_hexdump: go through all possible lengths of buffer
Date 2015-11-23 10:00 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 20 2015, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 11:07 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Why keep the variable l when it is just a synonym for the new
>> parameter buflen? It is quite confusing that you change some but not
>> all occurrences of l to buflen. If you want to make the diff minimal
>> but still have a descriptive parameter name, just keep the 'size_t l
>> =
>> buflen;' assignment and don't otherwise refer to buflen. But I think
>> it's better to eliminate 'l' and just change everything to
>> buflen. Don't mix the two approaches, though.
>
> Okay, I got it for the future, though the series is already in linux-
> next, so do we really need to re-hack half of it because of that?

Stuff in -next isn't set in stone. I'm pretty sure Andrew can replace
one set of patches with another.

Rasmus
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Re: [PATCH v1 3/7] test_hexdump: go through all possible lengths of buffer Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2015-11-19 11:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v1 3/7] test_hexdump: go through all possible lengths of  buffer Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-20 18:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v1 3/7] test_hexdump: go through all possible lengths of buffer Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2015-11-23 10:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v1 3/7] test_hexdump: go through all possible lengths of buffer Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 16:30 +0100

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