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On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >additinoal comment is that the code is very messy, very different > >from normal kernel style, full of indirections and thus hard to read. > > > > Most of my customers remark that Namesys code is head and shoulders > above the rest of the kernel code. So yes, it is different. In > particular, they cite the XFS code as being so incredibly hard to read > that its unreadability is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in > license fees for me. That's cash received, from persons who read it > all, not commentary made idly. It's very different from kernel style, and it's hard to read for us kernel developers. And yes, I don't think XFS is the most easy to read code either, quite contrary. But it's at least half a magnitude less bad than reiser4 code.. - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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