Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264954AbUF1QYI (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:24:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265062AbUF1QYI (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:24:08 -0400 Received: from ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.74]:9425 "EHLO ylpvm43.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265058AbUF1QX5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:23:57 -0400 Message-ID: <40E045FE.1070104@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:23:26 -0700 From: David Brownell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern , Pete Zaitcev CC: greg@kroah.com, arjanv@redhat.com, jgarzik@redhat.com, tburke@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net, oliver@neukum.org Subject: Re: drivers/block/ub.c References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 905 Lines: 24 Alan Stern wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > >>Regardin #2 you say that ``that code isn't "very fresh and buggy", having >>been in use with all USB-Storage devices for over a year and a half'' and >>yet I observe that fairly serious fixes were applied just this week. > > > I have to object to the reasoning here. That same sort of argument could > be applied to almost any part of the Linux kernel. I was also tempted to point out that the tone was objectionable. The implication that only Pete and Havoc have useful standards when it comes to code quality was ... offensive. Looks like I just gave into that temptation, eh? :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/