Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

David Woodhouse
2001-01-30T11:16:23Z

pgpkeys@hislinuxbox.com said:
> Remember, most of you guys have been coding for years, or working on
> the kernel for years. Some of us don't have that level of expertise,
> are trying to get it, and feel like we're being told that information
> is a private domain we aren't allowed in to.

Note that this is _precisely_ the reason I'm advocating the removal of
sleep_on(). When I was young and stupid (ok, "younger and stupider") I used
sleep_on() in my code. I pondered briefly the fact that I really couldn't
convince myself that it was safe, but because it was used in so many other
places, I decided I had to be missing something, and used it anyway.

I was wrong. I was copying broken code. And now I want to remove all those
bad examples - for the benefit of those who are looking at them now and are
tempted to copy them.

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dwmw2