From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 06:16:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 06:16:13 -0500 Received: from [172.16.18.67] ([172.16.18.67]:29828 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 06:16:08 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: To: "David D.W. Downey" Cc: John Levon , Timur Tabi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:11:27 +0000 Message-ID: <7085.980853087@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/