From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261283AbVFVOA6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:00:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261287AbVFVOA5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:00:57 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:62416 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261283AbVFVOAw (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:00:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:00:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik Van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: David Masover cc: Jeff Garzik , Hans Reiser , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins In-Reply-To: <42B8E834.5030809@slaphack.com> Message-ID: References: <20050620235458.5b437274.akpm@osdl.org> <42B831B4.9020603@pobox.com> <42B87318.80607@namesys.com> <20050621202448.GB30182@infradead.org> <42B8B9EE.7020002@namesys.com> <42B8BB5E.8090008@pobox.com> <42B8E834.5030809@slaphack.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, David Masover wrote: > The point is, this was in the kernel for quite awhile, and it was so > ugly that someone would rather be fucked with a chainsaw. If something > that bad can make it in the kernel and stay for awhile because it > worked, and no one wanted to replace it I would like to think we could learn from the mistakes made in the past, instead of repeating them. Ugly code often is so ugly people don't *want* to fix it, so merging ugly code is often a big mistake. -- The Theory of Escalating Commitment: "The cost of continuing mistakes is borne by others, while the cost of admitting mistakes is borne by yourself." -- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics