Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752870Ab0AVKr4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:47:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752705Ab0AVKr4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:47:56 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:56018 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752282Ab0AVKrz (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:47:55 -0500 To: Joe Perches Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcin Slusarz , Stephen Hemminger , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/24] drivers/block/floppy.c cleanups From: Andi Kleen References: Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:47:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Joe Perches's message of "Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:52:30 -0800") Message-ID: <87fx5yh0va.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 665 Lines: 19 Joe Perches writes: > Since Stephen Hemminger is a bit too busy to do much with this > I've broken up the first large patch into multiple pieces and > brought the rest up to current. Philosophically I'm not sure it's that great an idea to make bad code look better without actually fixing/rewriting it. It's like putting lipstick on a pig. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/