From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
protasnb@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:45:57 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712181045110.21557@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071218182808.GV7070@thunk.org>
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:
>
> Well, Matt took over maintenance of the /dev/random driver, but my
> take on it is that code readability is more important that saving a
> few bytes of generated code or speed; the code paths are only executed
> once, so it's hardly a fast path.
Quite frankly, I'd argue that while my suggested code wasn't exactly
readable, it was more so than the horror it tried to replace.
BAD CODE is never readable. At least my suggestion was good code.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-18 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-14 18:46 Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-14 18:58 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-14 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-14 22:25 ` Natalie Protasevich
2007-12-15 0:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-14 22:12 ` Jon Masters
2007-12-15 15:49 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-15 18:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-15 19:44 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-17 18:25 ` Zach Brown
2007-12-17 18:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-17 2:51 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-17 12:33 ` Jon Masters
2007-12-17 13:13 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-17 16:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-17 17:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-17 21:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-17 21:58 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-17 22:58 ` Tony Luck
2007-12-17 23:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-17 23:26 ` Tony Luck
2007-12-17 23:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-18 0:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-18 0:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-18 2:31 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-18 6:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-18 17:53 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-18 18:28 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-18 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-12-18 10:11 ` Jon Masters
2007-12-18 18:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-18 18:13 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-18 18:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-18 17:48 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-18 23:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
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