From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: "Artem B. Bityutskiy" <dedekind@yandex.ru>
Cc: zhao forrest <zhao_fusheng@hotmail.com>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]erase block header(revision 4)
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:49:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051003144935.GG4639@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43414378.80005@yandex.ru>
On Mon, 3 October 2005 18:43:04 +0400, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> Jörn Engel wrote:
> >Bad suggestion then. Try to draw a complete graph of all possible
> >users to this static structure, the locking required to make it
> >correct, then prove its correctness.
> Oh, It is not constant anymore (we have the "erasecount" filed there).
> Right. It must not be static. Zhao, I apologize for incorrect suggestion.
>
> >
> >If that didn't already scare you to death, try to anticipate future
> >code changes to such brittle code.
> Yes, yuo could have just proved its incorrectnes in 2-3 words instead.
It's always hard to anticipate why people are barking up the wrong
tree. Instead of figuring it out, the quick solution is to take a
chainsaw and cut the tree down. Not pretty, but it works.
Jörn
--
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
-- Publilius Syrus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-03 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-03 13:40 [PATCH]erase block header(revision 4) zhao forrest
2005-10-03 13:50 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2005-10-03 14:28 ` Jörn Engel
2005-10-03 14:43 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2005-10-03 14:49 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2005-10-09 6:08 ` zhao forrest
2005-10-09 7:06 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2005-10-09 10:35 ` Jörn Engel
2005-10-03 14:42 ` Jörn Engel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-28 7:33 zhao forrest
2005-09-30 1:15 ` root
2005-09-30 11:29 ` Jörn Engel
2005-10-03 11:23 ` Jörn Engel
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