14 Nov
2020
14 Nov
'20
10:14 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 01:39:47PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
I've applied this patch, but I have to say that I absolutely detest it.
This is very fragile, and I think the problem is the nasty interface.
I agree, it's nast.
Why don't we have simple wrappers that internally do that "mod", but actually expose "inc" and "dec" instead, and make it much harder to have these kinds of problems?
We actually need 'add' and 'sub', not 'inc' and 'dec'. Sometimes we inc, but often we need to add. But, yes, 'mod' is a bad name.