Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:49:35 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: GPLONLY kernel symbols??? |
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Alexander Viro writes: > > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Are you being deliberately obtuse? Your "that would explain a lot" > > comment is an obvious insult. > > I'm absolutely serious and yes, by now I consider the possibility > that you _really_ don't bother to read the core kernel code as very > probable. Style incompatibilities give a very plausible explanation > - I certainly can understand why somebody used to common kernel > style can have trouble reading code in your style and vice versa.
[I'm going to pretend you don't wish to be rude]
> The question still stands, BTW - should your "...I would be unable to > read..." be taken seriously?
I should have put a smiley face there. Obviously, "unable to read" isn't literally true, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to write devfs in the first place (or Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt, for that matter), since I wouldn't have been able to read the kernel sources. I do find the coding style unpleasant, though.
So, I *do* read core kernel code, and can understand it, despite the appalling coding style.
Hopefully this answers your serious questions, and the matter can be put at rest.
Regards,
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