Quotes of the week.

I suspect there are a few places in MM/VFS/writeback which could/should be using something like this. Of course, if we do this then your nice little function will end up 250 lines long, utterly incomprehensible and full of subtle bugs. We like things to be that way.

In contrast, the "v2.6.25-rc1~1089^2~98" expression is actually well-defined. There is no ambiguity there, but it's also obviously not really all that human-readable.

Frankly, I'm a lot more concerned about the locking being natural for the data structures we have and easily understood. We *are* fscking close to the complexity cliff, hopefully still on the right side of it.