From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753826AbbDMMTF (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:19:05 -0400 Received: from 251.110.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.110.251]:39974 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751227AbbDMMTC (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:19:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:17:49 +0100 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Steven Rostedt , Peter Zijlstra , Richard Weinberger , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ingo Molnar , Joe Perches , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: about the flood of trivial patches and the Code of Conduct (was: Re: [PATCH 19/25] sched: Use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0) Message-ID: <20150413131749.79405233@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <3681763.iLyH4xMfmO@vostro.rjw.lan> References: <1835148.WK9y2EKkR9@vostro.rjw.lan> <20150407132803.GB6801@home.goodmis.org> <3681763.iLyH4xMfmO@vostro.rjw.lan> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.27; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Besides, old code is somewhat like an ancient building. Yes, it needs to be > kept in a good shape, but you won't replace bricks in it just because they are > old, will you? When they matter to the integrity and they are likely to be full of internal cracks and holes you do. What concerns me more is that we now have lots of old driver code in the kernel that nobody uses, that nobody cares about in reality but which has been turd polished to the point that at casual glance it looks maintained and useful but probably hasn't been tested in years. Alan