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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "David D.W. Downey" <pgpkeys@hislinuxbox.com>
Cc: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>,
	Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:11:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7085.980853087@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101291018080.5353-100000@ns-01.hislinuxbox.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101291018080.5353-100000@ns-01.hislinuxbox.com>


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.

--
dwmw2


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-30 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-28 16:14 [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list Manfred Spraul
2001-01-28 14:36 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-01-28 16:45   ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-28 17:07     ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-28 17:40       ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-28 18:51         ` Roman Zippel
2001-01-29 17:01         ` Timur Tabi
2001-01-29 17:10           ` John Levon
2001-01-29 18:27             ` David D.W. Downey
2001-01-29 20:44               ` davej
2001-01-29 20:51               ` Timur Tabi
2001-01-29 20:56                 ` Rasmus Andersen
2001-01-30  0:29                 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-30  0:20               ` Ingo Oeser
2001-01-30 11:11               ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-01-30 16:52               ` Timur Tabi
2001-01-31  0:06                 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-31  0:09                 ` Timur Tabi
2001-01-31  9:14                   ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-30 17:10               ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-29 17:26           ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-29 19:47             ` Roman Zippel
2001-01-29 20:35               ` Andi Kleen
2001-02-16 14:29                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-02-16 14:26               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-31 17:57         ` Alan Cox
2001-01-31 19:15           ` Manfred Spraul
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-30  1:22 Rusty Russell
2001-01-30  3:08 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-27 17:11 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-01-28 15:20 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-28 14:03   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-01-28 15:49   ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-01-28 16:13 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-28 14:28   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-01-28 14:33     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-01-30  1:05   ` Rusty Russell
2001-01-30 11:19     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-30 17:49       ` Daniel Phillips

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