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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/2] Trace code and documentation (updated)
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:20:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070919162018.GA16237@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F12ED7.3060605@us.ibm.com>

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:14:47AM -0700, David Wilder wrote:
> I agree with you; however, this is in the example code in the 
> Documentation directory,  It is not part of the trace code.  The example 
> was just meant to be a demonstration of how the interface works.

So we tell people to write bad code?  Wonderful..

And while we're at it can we please stop the dumb idea to put example
code into Documentation?  If example code doesn't get build during a
make oldconfig it will bitrot real fast and not be useful at all.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-19 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19  4:46 [Patch 1/2] Trace code and documentation (updated) David J. Wilder
2007-09-19  8:30 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 14:14   ` David Wilder
2007-09-19 15:38     ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 16:20     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-09-19 16:52       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-19 16:55         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 17:48           ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-19 17:51             ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 18:01               ` Test harness in the kernel for new syscalls? [Was: Trace code and documentation (updated)] Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-21  4:50                 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-21  6:33                   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-21  8:08                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 17:41         ` [Patch 1/2] Trace code and documentation (updated) David Wilder
2007-09-23 12:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-24 15:16   ` David Wilder
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-21 21:48 David J. Wilder
2007-09-21 22:23 ` Randy Dunlap

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