Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:13:25 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:12:22PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On 31 Jan 2007 11:08:14 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > >Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes: > >> > >> What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair > >> that floppy.c is? Do you want everyone just to run screaming from > >> kernel development never to be seen again? > > floppy.c is not really that ugly or complicated... > > It just needs some care: > > * cleanup of the over-usage of macros (DP macro etc) > * DocBook documentation would be nice > * make debugging printks optional by using macros in a smart way > (see libata code for examples) > * tracking and fixing current regressions
* piece of shit FSM buried in various continuation methods. * one hell of a problem with regression testing. - 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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