Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

Hans Reiser
2005-09-20T17:22:04Z

Jens Axboe wrote:

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>Seeing as you are the one that is apparently bothered by the misnomer,
>it follows that you would be the one submitting a patch for this. Not
>that it would be accepted though, I don't see much point in renaming
>functions and breaking drivers just because of a slightly bad name. The
>io schedulers are all called foo-iosched.c, it's only the simple core
>api that uses the 'elevator' description.
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He asked for an example of messy code, I gave one. Nate can give
details on other messiness in that code.

Reiser4 has flaws also....

Give all the code time, and it will improve. The "elevator" code has
gotten a LOT better.