Re: [git pull] PCI pull request for 2.6.27

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jul 16 2008 - 19:51:19 EST




On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>
> Miklos Vajna (1):
> x86/PCI: janitor work in irq.c

Please don't take patches like this.

If it's janitor work, the end result should be better. But it's not. This
patch is full of stuff like

- for(addr = (u8 *) __va(0xf0000); addr < (u8 *) __va(0x100000); addr += 16) {
+ for (addr = (u8 *) __va(0xf0000); addr < (u8 *) __va(0x100000);
+ addr += 16) {
rt = pirq_check_routing_table(addr);

Which just brings negative value. The code is _harder_ to look at, not
easier.

The 80-character limit is less important than making code look obvious and
indentation being readable. Splitting the for(;;) loop just made the
indentation look like total crap.

I'm fixing it up (since it also caused trivial conflicts), but I'd ask
people to just ignore that sh*t-for-brains that is the long-line warning
when trying to fix it may silence a warning, but results in worse code!

Linus
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