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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: pavel@suse.cz, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:41:05 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020910094045.695DD2C363@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Sep 2002 01:15:39 MST." <20020909.011539.122194350.davem@redhat.com>

In message <20020909.011539.122194350.davem@redhat.com> you write:
>    I want *you* to feel the pain, not spread it around by leaving turds
>    throughout the code long after the bug is forgotten:
>    
> Aha, but it is you putting the turd comments all over.  I'm
> suggesting to put the turd in one place, the header file.

.... and every user of it...

> And how difficult is it to discern which initializers were
> needed?  Hmmm let me see, if it was all zero --> removing it
> is harmless.

Let's not get onto initializer wars: I initialize all my variables
exactly once, so there's serious semantic difference between "static
int x;" and "static int x = 0;" in my code.

> Both of us are advocating adding shit to the tree, the only argument
> is which stinks less from a maintainence perspective.

Hey, I'm not stopping you sending a patch to Linus, but given how we
deprecated compilers on x86, I don't think he'll have sympathy for
you in 2.6.

Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-10  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-04  2:35 [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix Rusty Russell
2002-09-04  2:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  4:04   ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04  4:52     ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-09  8:06       ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09  8:16         ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  5:05     ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  5:17       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-04  5:12         ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  6:00       ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04  6:06         ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  6:19           ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  7:38             ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-06  9:57               ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-09  3:45                 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09  6:13                   ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09  8:17                     ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09  8:15                       ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 20:58                         ` Alan Cox
2002-09-09 21:06                           ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10  9:41                         ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2002-09-04 15:44       ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-04 23:18         ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  2:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-04  2:46   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-04  3:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-05  9:10 Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05  9:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05 19:08   ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05 19:11     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09 12:17 Matthew Wilcox
2002-09-09 23:24 ` Rusty Russell

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