Re: [RFC][patch 02/12] remove clocksource inline functions

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Fri Jul 31 2009 - 10:50:05 EST


On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:36 EDT, Christoph Hellwig said:
> > You know that a priori because you're familiar with that code. But there's
> > another use case: An idiot monkey like myself manages to break the kernel
> > *again* in some part of the kernel they're totally unfamiliar with, and
> > they need to discover for themselves that timekeeping.c is the only user.
> >
> > (Of course, in another 5-6 years I'll probably have broken something in
> > every part of the kernel and whinged at Andrew about it, and that argument
> > won't apply anymore.. ;)
>
> Andthe poor grepping monkey can be sure that everyone used the useless
> wrapper exactly how? If you want to help people with grepping rename
> the method from read to clocksource_read..

Even better. ;)

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