Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932766AbVITRWE (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:22:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932761AbVITRWE (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:22:04 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:48022 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932766AbVITRWC (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:22:02 -0400 Message-ID: <43304531.4080201@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:21:53 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Nick Piggin , Alan Cox , thenewme91@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig , Denis Vlasenko , chriswhite@gentoo.org, lkml , ReiserFS List , Nate Diller Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel References: <200509180934.50789.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <200509181321.23211.vda@ilport.com.ua> <20050918102658.GB22210@infradead.org> <1127079524.8932.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <432E4786.7010001@namesys.com> <432F8D1E.7060300@yahoo.com.au> <432FABFA.9010406@namesys.com> <1127200590.9436.15.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <432FC150.9020807@namesys.com> <20050920114253.GL10845@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20050920114253.GL10845@suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 24 Jens Axboe wrote: > >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. > > > 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. - 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/