From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:52:53 +0000 Subject: Re: the printk problem Message-Id: <20080705185253.GQ14894@parisc-linux.org> List-Id: References: <20080705125230.GA20166@damson.getinternet.no> <19f34abd0807051141h4ccfd0ar28660199f2bbf81f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0807051141h4ccfd0ar28660199f2bbf81f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Vegard Nossum Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jan Engelhardt , Andrew Morton , Peter Anvin , "David S. Miller" , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. 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." From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.parisc-linux.org (palinux.external.hp.com [192.25.206.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.parisc-linux.org", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 440D6DDEFD for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 04:52:59 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:52:53 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Vegard Nossum Subject: Re: the printk problem Message-ID: <20080705185253.GQ14894@parisc-linux.org> References: <20080705125230.GA20166@damson.getinternet.no> <19f34abd0807051141h4ccfd0ar28660199f2bbf81f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0807051141h4ccfd0ar28660199f2bbf81f@mail.gmail.com> Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Peter Anvin , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , "David S. Miller" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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. 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." From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755319AbYGESxU (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:53:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751272AbYGESxL (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:53:11 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:33008 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751246AbYGESxK (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:53:10 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:52:53 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Vegard Nossum Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jan Engelhardt , Andrew Morton , Peter Anvin , "David S. Miller" , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: the printk problem Message-ID: <20080705185253.GQ14894@parisc-linux.org> References: <20080705125230.GA20166@damson.getinternet.no> <19f34abd0807051141h4ccfd0ar28660199f2bbf81f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0807051141h4ccfd0ar28660199f2bbf81f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. 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."