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SubjectRe: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week


On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:
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> Well, Matt took over maintenance of the /dev/random driver, but my
> take on it is that code readability is more important that saving a
> few bytes of generated code or speed; the code paths are only executed
> once, so it's hardly a fast path.

Quite frankly, I'd argue that while my suggested code wasn't exactly
readable, it was more so than the horror it tried to replace.

BAD CODE is never readable. At least my suggestion was good code.

Linus


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