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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, crutcher+kernel@datastacks.com,
	schwab@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.23] SysRq: print hotkey info while pressing undef key, try 2
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:13:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071017221313.GC2156@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18386.1192651748@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

Hi!

> > SysRq has already provided a similiar help before this patch, but it
> > is not so clear that the user doesn't know what happened and what
> > he/she should do.
> 
> The person is in one of two states:
> 
> 1) He has been told "recreate the problem, hit alt-sysreq-cokebottle,
> and send me the results".  He has a mission, and the only feedback he
> needs is (a) that he hit cokebottle and not pepsibottle, and (b) the
> resulting output.
> 
> 2) He's already read the file in Documentation/ and just needs a reminder.
> In this case, the fact it's only 2 or 3 lines and doesn't scroll other stuff
> out of sight is more important.
> 
> > In addition, that funtion has a big loop with another big loop
> > embedded which is very inefficient, it is intended to skip some hot
> 
> You're optimizing code that hopefully never gets executed, and even if
> it does, you have the optimization *backwards*.  If you're worried
> about

Pretty much exact. Thanks for saying this so nicely.
									Pavel

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-17 15:22 [PATCH 2.6.23] SysRq: print hotkey info while pressing undef key, try 2 Yi Yang
2007-10-17 16:10 ` Frans Pop
2007-10-18 14:40   ` Yi Yang
2007-10-17 20:09 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-10-17 22:13   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-10-18 14:34   ` Yi Yang
2007-10-18 17:10     ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-24 18:04       ` Crutcher Dunnavant

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