From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 06:34:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 04/10] ref-filter: skip deref specifier in match_atom_name()
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZR2zQivyEDVwPxHxWvucYeGE9Z+bbe8xUYYfTgMh8ajgA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cTNshvpwn1=VSbnDE8AQMkfKmd1wnP0hNLT1iS3cDEb_A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <Karthik.188@gmail.com>
>
> A bit of explanation about why this change is desirable would be
> welcome. I'm guessing it's because a future patch is going to make
> calls to match_atom_name() with the '*' deref indicator still attached
> to the name, whereas existing code does not do so.
>

Yes, you're correct!
Will add this in, thanks.

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Regards,
Karthik Nayak