Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759384Ab2EINVy (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2012 09:21:54 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:64732 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757899Ab2EINVx (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2012 09:21:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120509070710.GA29981@gmail.com> References: <1336004953.4240.9.camel@mop> <1336475689.1179.12.camel@mop> <20120509070710.GA29981@gmail.com> From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 15:21:32 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jonathan Corbet , Sasha Levin , Greg Kroah-Hartmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1200 Lines: 35 On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> [...] >> >> So it's like a defibrillator: it is good to *have* one, but >> it's really bad to have to *use* one. I rather teach the people with known heart problems to only slap their shocks at people who wear a sign that they are prepared to get treated, instead of just letting them "help" the healthy random next guy. :) > /me nominates this for LWN quote of the week! > > Thanks for bringing sanity into printk, Sounds like the view of sanity of the guys with heart problems, not so much of the healthy guys. :) In other words: Isolation of risk-takers from non-risk-takers is usually a good thing. Explicit annotation of exceptions almost every time beats expressions which need heuristics to construct the context. We use typed pointer instead of void too, even when we don't need it most of the time. :) Kay -- 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/