From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:03:01 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112010703.fB1731403709@www.hockin.org> (raw)
At 09:43 PM 11/30/01 -0800, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> Most of the bad-but-not-obviously-bad ideas get rooted out by people trying
> them and finding them to be wanting. Take, for example, the VM flap in the
>
Ahh right, like the OOM killer. There's a brilliant idea that got rooted
out to where it belongs...
> The "Linux Way" as I understand it is to release early and release
> often. That means that we go through a "generation" of released code every
And disregard the "mutations" that have already been "selected for" (to
carry the analogy) in other systems. And disregard any edge-case that is
"too hard" or "too rare" or "involves serious testing".
> Now that I've stretched the analogy as far as I care to, I will stop
> now. Please consider the life-cycle of the kernel when thinking about what
> Linus said.
I can't consider joe.random developer adding a feature as a "mutation".
It's just not analogous in my mind.
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2001-12-01 7:03 Tim Hockin [this message]
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2001-12-03 16:32 Coding style - a non-issue Dana Lacoste
2001-12-03 15:20 Tommy Reynolds
2001-12-02 20:53 n7ekg
2001-12-02 21:43 ` Brandon McCombs
2001-12-02 22:00 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-02 22:05 ` Jonathan Abbey
2001-12-03 2:46 ` Trever L. Adams
2001-12-02 6:34 Khyron
2001-12-02 16:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-01 20:39 Stanislav Meduna
2001-12-01 21:18 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-01 22:44 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-02 8:01 ` Stanislav Meduna
2001-12-02 12:19 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-02 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-02 16:36 ` Stanislav Meduna
2001-12-02 16:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-02 22:44 ` Chris Ricker
2001-12-03 6:43 ` David S. Miller
2001-12-03 2:44 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-03 9:07 ` Stanislav Meduna
2001-12-04 1:21 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-01 21:44 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-12-02 9:31 ` John Alvord
2001-11-30 19:53 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-11-30 20:17 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-11-30 20:56 ` Tim Hockin
2001-12-03 18:34 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-11-30 19:42 Galappatti, Kishantha
2001-11-30 18:19 Dana Lacoste
2001-11-30 18:36 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-11-28 23:29 Peter Waltenberg
2001-11-28 23:40 ` Russell King
2001-11-28 23:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-28 23:48 ` Robert Love
2001-11-29 0:17 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-29 0:23 ` Larry McVoy
2001-11-29 0:57 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-11-30 10:00 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-11-30 15:26 ` Larry McVoy
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2001-11-30 16:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-30 17:15 ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2001-11-30 17:23 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-30 17:27 ` Larry McVoy
2001-11-30 17:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-30 18:07 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-30 18:13 ` Larry McVoy
2001-11-30 18:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-30 19:05 ` Larry McVoy
2001-11-30 21:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-30 22:06 ` Larry McVoy
2001-11-30 22:17 ` Andrew Morton
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2001-12-01 0:35 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-01 0:44 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-01 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds
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2001-12-01 1:34 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-01 16:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-12-01 16:27 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-01 18:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-01 1:15 ` Petko Manolov
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2001-12-01 2:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-01 23:11 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-01 3:02 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-12-01 3:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-01 3:30 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-01 3:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-01 4:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-01 4:44 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-12-01 5:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-01 6:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-01 20:17 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-12-01 20:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-01 12:34 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-12-01 22:23 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-02 0:43 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-02 9:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2001-12-02 18:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-12-02 17:32 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-02 20:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-12-02 18:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-02 19:04 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-02 19:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-02 19:42 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-04 10:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-12-05 22:18 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-02 20:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-12-01 8:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-01 13:14 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-12-01 13:38 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-01 15:15 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-12-01 6:31 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-01 7:07 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2001-12-01 22:15 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-01 4:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-12-01 23:18 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-02 20:25 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-02 23:51 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-03 0:55 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-03 12:04 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-12-03 13:20 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-07 18:15 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-12-04 11:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-12-03 1:34 ` David L. Parsley
2001-12-03 3:06 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-04 1:39 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-04 22:25 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-12-04 18:38 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-01 5:54 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-01 11:18 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-01 18:05 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-12-01 18:21 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-02 16:25 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-12-02 16:54 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-02 19:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-12-01 22:20 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-02 17:18 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-30 22:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-30 18:44 ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2001-11-30 17:53 ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2001-11-30 18:07 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-01 4:12 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-12-01 5:14 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-06 0:13 ` Rusty Russell
2001-11-30 17:31 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-30 17:55 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-30 18:07 ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2001-12-02 20:13 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-02 21:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-02 21:30 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-01 0:12 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-30 18:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-01 1:17 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-01 8:54 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-12-02 23:21 ` David S. Miller
2001-12-02 23:27 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-04 17:18 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-12-04 17:23 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-12-04 22:28 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-30 17:20 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-30 17:50 ` Russell King
2001-11-30 17:49 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-30 18:03 ` Russell King
2001-11-30 18:31 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-30 17:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-30 17:42 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-30 18:00 ` Russell King
2001-11-30 17:55 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-30 18:40 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-30 18:46 ` Russell King
2001-11-30 17:54 ` antirez
2001-11-30 18:20 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-11-30 18:47 ` antirez
2001-11-30 20:20 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-11-30 19:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-30 19:41 ` John Kodis
2001-11-30 20:27 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-12-01 21:52 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-01 23:22 ` john slee
2001-12-01 23:57 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-12-02 20:03 ` Pavel Machek
2001-11-29 0:50 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-29 1:07 ` Petko Manolov
2001-11-29 1:56 ` Matthias Andree
2001-11-30 18:15 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-11-30 18:29 ` John H. Robinson, IV
2001-11-30 18:39 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-11-30 18:38 ` Nestor Florez
2001-11-30 18:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-30 20:06 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-11-30 20:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-01 17:53 ` David Weinehall
2001-12-01 21:29 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-12-02 2:03 ` Tracy R Reed
2001-12-05 3:42 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-30 20:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-01 21:45 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-11-30 20:48 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-30 23:17 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-01 0:28 ` Rik van Riel
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