Re: [PATCH] Driver Core update for 2.6.4

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > eh?  If there is any argument against this code it is that it is so simple
> > > that the thing which it abstracts is not worth abstracting.  But given that
> > > it is so unwasteful, this seems unimportant.
> > 
> > The bloat argument was about the additional pointer in the dynamic 
> > data structure (on a 64bit architecture it costs 12 bytes) 
> 
> This is one place where C++-style vtable inheritance would help.
> Many of those *_operations tables could logically derive from a kref_operations table.
> 
> I doubt if there is a nice to way to represent it with C macros, but
> maybe there is.

(Stupid idea) Has anybody thought about using "Lightweight C++"?

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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