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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	mingo@elte.hu, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, simon@fire.lp0.eu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000e (reset_prng_context)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:57:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216227446.8292.37.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080715214929.GA18268@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 01:49 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 01:44:07PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > > Note that the new crypto/prng.c driver has very bad quality:
> > I think we should merge new drivers as aggressively as possible.
> Well, I don't have strong opinion about this exact statement, but
> Ingo, COULD YOU PLEASE [...] STOP THIS
> CHECKPATCH.PL-AS-INDICATOR HORSESHIT !

Coding style conformity (easy and clinical) and quality
(hard and emotional) are only weakly correlated in software.

I think that Ingo sometimes conflates them and he should be more
selective when using the "quality" term.

I think he recognizes this, he just hasn't done much about it.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/22/307

Ingo, could you please just substitute conformity for quality
in these sorts of posts?  Perhaps you could also change the
name of your code-quality script to style-conformity?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-16 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-14 23:25 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000e (reset_prng_context) Simon Arlott
2008-07-15  2:04 ` Neil Horman
2008-07-15 11:33   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-15 11:49     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-15 11:51     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-15 14:21       ` Neil Horman
2008-07-15 20:44     ` David Miller
2008-07-15 21:49       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-07-15 22:11         ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-15 22:36           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-07-16  0:04           ` Neil Horman
2008-07-16  2:08           ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-16  4:07           ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-16  4:25             ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-16  4:33               ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-16  4:51                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-16  5:34                   ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-16  6:17                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-16  6:35                       ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-16 16:57         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2008-07-18 22:16       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-15  2:16 ` Neil Horman

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