On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> On 11/24/2015 02:03 PM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> > The API provided by wait.h and swait.h is very similiar. Most of the
> > time your are only one character away from either of it:
> >
> > wake_up() vs swake_up()
> >
> > This is on purpose so that we do not have two nearly identical bits of
> > infrastructre code with dissimilar names.
> >
> > A compile time type check assertion ensures that obvious wrong usage
> > is caught at early stage.
>
> Obviously, this didn't really work as one can see with patch #4. That
> one just compiled. So I wrapped almost all functions to get a better
> check coverage. woken_wake_function(), autoremove_wake_function() and
> wake_bit_function() can't be wrapped easily because DEFINE_WAIT and
> friends. I just left them out.
>
> The result looks pretty bad in my opinion. Probably it would be
> better do add -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types to the CFLAGS.
That's really bad.
If we can pull off the -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types trick, that
would solve it nicely.
Thanks,
tglx
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