Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week

Theodore Tso
2007-12-18T18:28:28Z

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