linux-kernel - Re: the printk problem

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Message-Id: <20080705221719.949998e5.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:17:19 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	"Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@....cx>,
	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the printk problem

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 03:02:59 +0300 Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 08:41:39PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> >> Single letters are bad because it hurts readability and limits the
> >> usefulness of the extension.</MHO>
> 
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:
> > I think you need a little warning noise that goes off in your head that
> > means "I might be overdesigning this".  Linus' code is elegant and
> > solves a problem nicely.
> 
> Am I the only one who missed Linus' patch? Did it make it to the list?

No, you are not the only one.  It was on linuxppc-dev for some reason.
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-July/059257.html

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