From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix regression added by ppoll/pselect code.
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:04:24 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137733464.30084.198.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060119205648.221fd3f0.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> a) They tell you what the magic numbers _mean_.
Yeah, but so does the context.
> b) Ever tried counting nine contiguous zeros at 4AM, making sure that
> they're all there?
I work on the principle that if I can't even count any more, it's time I
stopped looking at code altogether :)
Do it if you really want to, by all means -- I just think it's a little
gratuitous. Doesn't really hurt though.
--
dwmw2
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-20 5:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-20 0:40 David S. Miller
2006-01-20 4:48 ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-20 4:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 5:04 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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