Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964794AbWAWFZN (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:25:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964796AbWAWFZM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:25:12 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:54451 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964794AbWAWFZK (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:25:10 -0500 Subject: Re: - add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch removed from -mm tree From: David Woodhouse To: Eric Dumazet Cc: Andrew Morton , axboe@suse.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43D0B4F5.30807@cosmosbay.com> References: <200601190052.k0J0qmKC009977@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1137648119.30084.94.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060119171708.7f856b42.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <1137664692.8471.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060119155933.GX4213@suse.de> <1137745995.30084.201.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060120004456.190f451b.akpm@osdl.org> <1137747595.30084.215.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43D0B4F5.30807@cosmosbay.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:25:10 +1300 Message-Id: <1137993911.27828.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 1388 Lines: 32 On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 11:01 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Some readers of linux kernel sources are blind. > They use a kind of terminal that 'displays' a single line of 80 'characters' > (or even 40) called a 'Braille Display' > > This kind of terminal is very expensive, and I think the 80 column one is the > most you can get (price : about 7000$). Yes, I've seen them. What's your point? A user with a braille terminal can also 'see' that it's just a memcpy of the signal set, and doesn't really need to scroll over to see the length argument to the memcpy, except in very exceptional circumstances. The code flow is perfectly understandable without doing so. > I am ok to be a litle bit upset by this 80 limitation that looks odd on my > 1000$ 24" display, but reminds me the fact that some human people are different. > > So please don't count me as part of your _everyone_. I count your theoretical blind person above as part of 'everyone'. By gratuitously moving the 'fluff' onto a new line, he gets a whole line taken up by it when he scrolls down. If it had stayed where I put it, it wouldn't be getting in his way. -- dwmw2 - 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/