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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:52:53 +0000
Subject: Re: the printk problem
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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

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.

-- 
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