From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751196AbaLQFHx (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:07:53 -0500 Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:60115 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750790AbaLQFHv (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:07:51 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:07:46 -0500 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Al Viro Cc: nick , akpm@linux-foundation.org, fabf@skynet.be, sasha.levin@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Remove cramfs source code from mainline kernel? Message-ID: <20141217050746.GY17575@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Al Viro , nick , akpm@linux-foundation.org, fabf@skynet.be, sasha.levin@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <5490E6F8.4030207@gmail.com> <20141217024602.GG22149@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141217024602.GG22149@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on imap.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 02:46:02AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > > a) learn to use line breaks > b) what do we win from removing it? If it starts becoming inconvenient to > maintain, it might make sense to consider removal, but as it is... What, > somebody has slapped a couple of F-words in there? "FIXME", that is... > > Al, seriously tempted to add > > /* FIXME. FIXME. FIXME. DO NOT remove that comment - it serves > a very important purpose by tormenting a certain fetishist */ > > on top of a bunch of files in fs/*.c, just to see what effect will it have... Al, in case you didn't know, Nick Krause has been banned from LKML for being a troll[1][2][3]. A common troll tactic is to cc a few people plus the mailing list from which he is banned, in the hopes that people will get tricked into replying and quoting his original message, thus evading the ban. - Ted [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/4/206 [2] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2014-December/012934.html [3] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2014-December/012938.html - Ted