From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:35:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461E6DDC.7050202@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070412171606.GA24756@uhulinux.hu>
Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:58:38AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> Not leaving dead code in the kernel is long-standing policy; it's
>> nothing new. We constantly remove #if 0'd code that the authors have
>> left in.
>
> I see. However, you wrote it recently:
>
>> Besides, would it not make more sense to have a single table with the
>> width information, if you insist on having one, instead of multiple ones?
>
> If I rework the code according to this then the zero-width information will
> no longer be dead code, right? The unchanged kernel would be slightly larger
> and would run slightly slower, but it would be much easier to patch it to
> reach the other possible behavior regarding combining characters.
>
Yes, I didn't realize at the time that that was dead code.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-06 19:12 [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-06 19:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-07 9:24 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-07 11:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-07 17:26 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-07 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-10 9:43 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-10 15:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-10 17:19 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-10 17:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-10 18:51 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-11 12:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-10 17:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-10 17:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-11 18:28 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-11 18:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-12 9:11 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 15:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-12 16:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-12 16:55 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 16:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-12 17:16 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 17:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-12 17:44 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 17:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-12 18:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-12 12:54 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 13:13 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-12 14:06 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 14:38 ` Roman Zippel
2007-04-12 14:58 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 15:52 ` Roman Zippel
2007-04-12 16:36 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 18:09 ` Roman Zippel
2007-04-11 19:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-12 9:22 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-11 19:36 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-12 8:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-17 10:22 Egmont Koblinger
2007-06-19 12:13 ` Egmont Koblinger
[not found] <8aT6Q-3iM-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8xLa7-25v-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-06-19 13:54 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-06-19 14:42 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-06-19 17:10 ` Bodo Eggert
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