From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751130AbcABJJ3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jan 2016 04:09:29 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:57409 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750709AbcABJJY (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jan 2016 04:09:24 -0500 Subject: Re: net-libertas: Better exception handling in if_spi_host_to_card_worker() To: Julia Lawall References: <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net> <5686F0B2.5000000@users.sourceforge.net> <56870866.7020000@cogentembedded.com> <568785B3.5000905@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kalle Valo , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: SF Markus Elfring X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <5687939E.7010701@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 10:08:46 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:uqhTNjMyaNwVhtjKLcoE+nnW894t3kEEU1182X7RmV+G+vnAvix MpnAUjpWLgGLrjtOs4k37msJfR0OuHTA7k+4ZSuH9dBhqn508zDb36c5GNcR3T5elMBef7n 65DWpZd8pHzAU5U2c6H5tyASoIMCo6xTbVsGUMhnneJk5Ia4uOt3JKFuruKSIaDTrgXshYp j829nPyIJDgjzbo286qKQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:MfQUEwx5uGo=:4ROR1klaE8W35WalVMtcVL Yrt/451WElmY0c+Or2MnNlPsWJr3moy3WB734SVJoFvM2N0dCn840UU+SY5JQJQ19IcTCaKKp 0eDtusBJtcSxY0T8rhAeH5h+eKZtOqUZjHNQyChOh/c/T+j/KT6lZWfBDwaT2jKCY3zMS0qDl 6j1Wsg3E/smCX03l1yTo1DzBRplzDlPJb+dt8zWfGO1ou/05gA2MZP6Pmm3bDbl7yQpHF2Shk GbG7Rp5EfrITMCkyfBo+5TbNJ0wQlVYYxgEYap1qXC9CLHlrHypKr+vXF1O6DWDuelaHbu2Nh KTmr0dcWv4XuNuKJksi+tlk33XBnvKPv2ITf9LI4Uy+cHpz/EDSLxpsMM3bdCqUl7TEevqfsO /maNtzbrJSsw+28I+hj+1cciUH71XN692NNiZHiVfDQxEOXH+p4i8orxpY2l1v01qW5yVSJiQ NbxH4P/fPIlnny2Qek7LWlVvgrGDeMDtl3Zg+PPqRI8V677aFEhb1JLoIKCk2j0+SEVfzUqBS kmwrFWqhF/a5IsSFI8xB1Cr6nDPQaDwVHsuxTrPntVZxv2vo44o8//8qDHUO8v1ggeSsElLd8 tkQktNMN/E06gFQgUcOr7MLFx+rgMpeYD785Bhnmqu6zNEN2HrtK5ibE9G6JLLHefWz+hmC/C Eyu7Ar0vxklM8svqBhCsZdwQUwrO+5BXlXLw0l3deEz6ffstYFgHqDfr4KtPyOgRhCh3XaHSq aBTM6ghnAM0wOt14FsfkOx8JaQRuYiK+vG7gNCYL0x97/xuMXfrMEpcsrkcQ3hLXWPqUgw0Dg dH0vnG6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> I assume that a software development taste can evolve, can't it? > > So far, you have gotten several down votes for this kind of change, I am curious when more contributors will share corresponding opinions. > and no enthusiasm. How many software designers and developers can become enthusiastic about better exception handling to some degree? > The code that is performance critical, you should probably not touch, ever. I imagine that technical evolution will result in further considerations so that "unchangeable" components can be adjusted once more. > The people who wrote it knew what was important and what was not. I might come along at some places where the affected knowledge will also evolve. Regards, Markus