From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the printk problem
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:52:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080705185253.GQ14894@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0807051141h4ccfd0ar28660199f2bbf81f@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 08:41:39PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Single letters are bad because it hurts readability and limits the
> usefulness of the extension.</MHO>
I think you need a little warning noise that goes off in your head that
means "I might be overdesigning this". Linus' code is elegant and
solves a problem nicely.
--
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: the printk problem
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:52:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080705185253.GQ14894@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0807051141h4ccfd0ar28660199f2bbf81f@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 08:41:39PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Single letters are bad because it hurts readability and limits the
> usefulness of the extension.</MHO>
I think you need a little warning noise that goes off in your head that
means "I might be overdesigning this". Linus' code is elegant and
solves a problem nicely.
--
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the printk problem
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:52:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080705185253.GQ14894@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0807051141h4ccfd0ar28660199f2bbf81f@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 08:41:39PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Single letters are bad because it hurts readability and limits the
> usefulness of the extension.</MHO>
I think you need a little warning noise that goes off in your head that
means "I might be overdesigning this". Linus' code is elegant and
solves a problem nicely.
--
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-05 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 111+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-25 13:11 [PATCH] handle failure of irqchip->set_type in setup_irq Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-02 9:17 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-02 9:49 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-02 10:09 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 10:46 ` [PATCH v2] " Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 17:17 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-04 18:43 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 19:08 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-09 13:13 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-09 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-10 8:23 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-10 8:28 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <20080704111540.ddffd241.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807041147450.2815@woody.linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04 20:02 ` the printk problem Linus Torvalds
2008-07-04 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-04 20:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-04 20:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-04 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-04 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-04 20:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-04 20:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-04 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-04 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-04 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-05 2:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-05 2:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-05 2:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-22 10:05 ` [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the printk problem) Andrew Morton
2008-07-22 10:05 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-22 10:05 ` [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the Andrew Morton
2008-07-22 10:36 ` [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the printk problem) Michael Ellerman
2008-07-22 10:36 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-22 10:36 ` [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the Michael Ellerman
2008-07-22 10:53 ` [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the printk problem) Andrew Morton
2008-07-22 10:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-22 10:53 ` [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the Andrew Morton
2008-07-22 11:36 ` [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the printk problem) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-22 11:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-22 11:36 ` [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-22 11:35 ` [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the printk problem) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-22 11:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-22 11:35 ` [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-05 10:20 ` the printk problem Denys Vlasenko
2008-07-05 10:20 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-07-05 10:20 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-07-05 11:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-05 11:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-05 11:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-04 22:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-04 22:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-04 20:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-04 20:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-08 1:44 ` Kyle McMartin
2008-07-08 1:44 ` Kyle McMartin
2008-07-04 23:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-04 23:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-04 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-04 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05 22:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-05 22:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-06 5:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-06 5:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-06 5:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-06 5:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-06 5:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-06 5:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-06 5:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-06 5:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-06 6:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-06 6:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-06 6:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-07 1:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-07 1:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-07 3:26 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-07 3:28 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-07 4:59 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-07 3:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-05 12:52 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-05 12:52 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-05 12:52 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-05 13:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-05 13:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-05 13:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-05 13:50 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-05 13:50 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-05 13:50 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-05 14:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-05 14:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-05 14:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-05 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05 18:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-05 18:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-05 18:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-05 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05 18:41 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-05 18:41 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-05 18:41 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-05 18:52 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-07-05 18:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-05 18:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-06 0:02 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-06 0:02 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-06 0:02 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-06 5:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-07-06 5:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-07-06 5:17 ` Randy Dunlap
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