From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
protasnb@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:28:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071218182808.GV7070@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47676FAE.30200@linux.intel.com>
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:58:54PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:21:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> which also gets bonus points for being totally unreadable, and thus 100%
>>> in the spirit of uuid's.
>> Heh. UUID's don't have to be readable; just universally unique. Code
>> on the other hand should be readable. :-)
>
> Linus' suggested... improvement should either be done in all 3 places or
> none ;)
> Since you're the maintainer... what's your suggestion?
Well, Matt took over maintenance of the /dev/random driver, but my
take on it is that code readability is more important that saving a
few bytes of generated code or speed; the code paths are only executed
once, so it's hardly a fast path.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-18 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-14 18:46 Top kernel oopses/warnings this week Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-14 18:58 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-14 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-14 22:25 ` Natalie Protasevich
2007-12-15 0:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-14 22:12 ` Jon Masters
2007-12-15 15:49 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-15 18:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-15 19:44 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-17 18:25 ` Zach Brown
2007-12-17 18:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-17 2:51 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-17 12:33 ` Jon Masters
2007-12-17 13:13 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-17 16:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-17 17:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-17 21:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-17 21:58 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-17 22:58 ` Tony Luck
2007-12-17 23:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-17 23:26 ` Tony Luck
2007-12-17 23:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-18 0:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-18 0:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-18 2:31 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-18 6:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-18 17:53 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-18 18:28 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-12-18 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-18 10:11 ` Jon Masters
2007-12-18 18:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-18 18:13 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-18 18:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-18 17:48 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-18 23:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
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