Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750999AbVIQJWx (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Sep 2005 05:22:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750998AbVIQJWx (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Sep 2005 05:22:53 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:43987 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750989AbVIQJWw (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Sep 2005 05:22:52 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:22:47 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Hans Reiser Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel Message-ID: <20050917092247.GA13992@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML , ReiserFS List References: <432AFB44.9060707@namesys.com> <20050916174028.GA32745@infradead.org> <432B1F84.3000902@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <432B1F84.3000902@namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1104 Lines: 24 On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >additinoal comment is that the code is very messy, very different > >from normal kernel style, full of indirections and thus hard to read. > > > > Most of my customers remark that Namesys code is head and shoulders > above the rest of the kernel code. So yes, it is different. In > particular, they cite the XFS code as being so incredibly hard to read > that its unreadability is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in > license fees for me. That's cash received, from persons who read it > all, not commentary made idly. It's very different from kernel style, and it's hard to read for us kernel developers. And yes, I don't think XFS is the most easy to read code either, quite contrary. But it's at least half a magnitude less bad than reiser4 code.. - 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/