On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > 
> > > Show some _taste_.
> > 
> > Tell the hardware dudes who made that crap so difficult
> 
> No. I'm telling you, because that patch IS CRAP.
> 
> > Over which _whole_ thing ? You want to have the very very fast thing,
> > which is not reliable under all circumstances as Alok pointed out and
> > I merily added a sanity check around that for testing.
> 
> You can move that thing _out_ into a function of its own.

I know, but I'm not going to do that at 11PM. 
 
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> Here's a hint: we don't do cut-and-paste programming. And we don't get 
> extra points for bloating a single function with the same unreadable code 
> over and over and over again. 
> 
> How many copies do you want? And here's a hint: the answer is _one_. If 
> you get any other answer, your patch is SHIT.

I didn't know that sending a test patch which is admittetly not pretty
is a capital crime nowadays.

In future I'll restrict myself to look at such stuff only on Monday to
Friday between 9AM and 5PM and send test/RFC patches only when they
got approved by the nonshitapproval committee, which holds a meeting
once a month.

Yours grumpy,

      tglx
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