Re: [PATCH 06/20] mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array [LWN.net]

From:		Greg KH <gregkh-AT-suse.de>
To:		Daniel Walker <dwalker-AT-fifo99.com>
Subject:		Re: [PATCH 06/20] mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array
Date:		Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:32:35 -0700
Cc:		Kay Sievers <kay.sievers-AT-vrfy.org>, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:26:46PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 14:20 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > I'll gladly do that, it's trival for me to do so.
> > 
> 
> What about the other side ? The people who are sending the clean ups,
> there time is valuable too..

Don't you mean "their"?  (hey, I can be nit-picky too...)

And yes, but the engineering model of the kernel development cycle is
that engineer hours are wasted and thrown away all the time.  They are
surplus, sorry.  That's how life works here.

> I hope you don't ignore these errors very often ..

More often then you want to know, I have real issues to deal with :)

thanks,

greg "it's a _guide_ dammit!" k-h

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Very true

Posted Sep 17, 2009 5:25 UTC (Thu) by proski (guest, #104) [Link] (1 responses)

It's an important quality of a kernel programmer to be able to through away own changes if they turn out to be less important than they seemed to be originally.

Very true

Posted Sep 17, 2009 14:34 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (guest, #15022) [Link]

This sounds so wasteful from the perspective of a capital-based system where work equals money, but there is something fundamentally satisfying about being able to say that work equals experience, and to look for quality, and admit to ourselves that most of the time we go for days in the wrong direction before we hit on something closer to right.

So ironic that reconnecting the worker to the quality of their work should feel like alienating them from the value of their labor.

Re: [PATCH 06/20] mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array

Posted Sep 22, 2009 19:46 UTC (Tue) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]

> More often then you want to know, I have real issues to deal with

Don't you mean "than"? (hey, I can be nit-picky too...)