Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update jhash.h with the new version of Jenkins' hash

From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:58:04 -0800

Jozsef Kadlecsik <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, [email-masked] wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:19:20AM +0100, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
>> >  /* The golden ration: an arbitrary value */
>> > -#define JHASH_GOLDEN_RATIO	0x9e3779b9
>> > +#define JHASH_GOLDEN_RATIO	0xdeadbeef
>> 

0xdeadbeef is a really bad choice of an arbitrary value.  It is
already used in multiple places.  Only a few of which are currently
listed in linux/poison.h and if I happened to see that number in a
debug trace having to sort through all of the possible sources looks
like a major pain.

I don't really care what we call it but somehow 0xdeadbeef strikes me
as wrong and something that will make debugging harder.

Eric