Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Wed, 9 May 2012 15:21:32 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer |
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On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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
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