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[Posted August 9, 2006 by corbet]

Davej's laws of kernel hacking #1: If the number of iterations a patch goes through to get it right is greater than the number of lines in the diff, it probably isn't worth it.

-- Dave Jones

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Read the whole thread. Funny and insightful

Posted Aug 10, 2006 3:25 UTC (Thu) by kjp (guest, #39639) [Link]

And a great example of good coding style...

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Posted Aug 10, 2006 12:19 UTC (Thu) by erich (guest, #7127) [Link]

i.e. add another comment line on each iteration to avoid this issue.

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Posted Aug 21, 2006 13:57 UTC (Mon) by jimwelch (guest, #178) [Link]

The patch or the programmer?


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