Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:31:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:30:51 -0500 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:35333 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:30:39 -0500 Message-ID: <3C07BFE8.5B32C49C@evision-ventures.com> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 18:20:40 +0100 From: Martin Dalecki Reply-To: dalecki@evision.ag X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Henning Schmiedehausen , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue In-Reply-To: <20011128162317.B23210@work.bitmover.com> <9u7lb0$8t9$1@forge.intermeta.de> <20011130072634.E14710@work.bitmover.com> <1007138360.6656.27.camel@forge> <3C07B820.4108246F@mandrakesoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > > The security community has shown us time and again that public shaming > is often the only way to motivate vendors into fixing security > problems. Yes, even BSD security guys do this :) > > A "Top 10 ugliest Linux kernel drivers" list would probably provide > similar motivation. Yehh.... However some of the uglinesses results from ignorance on behalf of the overall kernel maintainers, who don't care to apply "cosmetic" changes to drivers, just to don't irritate the oftes so called "maintainer". Two expierences: ftape and mcd I'm through.... BTW.> ftape (for the pascal emulation) and DAC960 (for the silly ICantReadThisCasing) are my personal "top ranks" in regard of the contest for the most ugly code in the kernel... serial.c is another one for the whole multiport support which may be used by maybe 0.1% of the Linux users thrown on them all and some "magic" number silliness as well... - 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/