Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 May 2001 16:33:36 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code |
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On Sun, 20 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Linus, as much as I'd like to agree with you, you are hopeless optimist. > > 90% of drivers contain code written by stupid gits. ^^^^^^^ > > I think thats a very arrogant and very mistaken view of the problem. 90% > of the driver are written by people who are
written by != contain code written by. Stuff initally written by sane people tends to get all sorts of crap into it. Unfortunately.
The problem being: very few people actually read the code in drivers/*. And crap accumulates. The messier it is, the faster it gets shitted.
So relying on the people finding crappy ->write() instances and ridiculing the authors in public is... well, somewhat naive. There's more than enough crap already and that simply doesn't happen. It _can_ be done, but it will take more than just having the code sitting there.
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