[Dlab-devel] Perle di saggezza

[Bernardo I. <be...@de...>]

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Salve,

sul Kernel Traffic di questa settimana ho trovato questa perla
di Saggezza, volevo condividerla con voi ;-)

 Il contesto e' che un certo Anton Altaparmakov si e' lamentato
sulla mailing list del kernel di Linux dicendo che Martin Dalecki,
il mantainer del sottosistema IDE, da mesi sta solo togliendo
cose senza aggiungere niente di nuovo. Al che, Linus Torvalds ha
risposto:

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  Who cares? Have you found _anything_ that Martin removed that
 was at all worthwhile? I sure haven't.

  Guys, you have to realize that the IDE layer has eight YEARS
 of absolute crap in it. Seriously. It's _never_ been cleaned up
 before. It has stuff so distasteful that t's scary.

  Take it from me: it's a _lot_ easier to add cruft and crap on
 top of clean code. You can do it yourself if you want to.
 You don't need a maintainer to add barnacles.

  All the information that /proc/ide gave you is basically
available in hdparm, and for your dear embedded system it
apparently takes up less space by being in user space.
So what is the problem?

 My vote is to remove as much as humanly possible.
 
   "Everything should be made as simple as possible,
   but not simpler" - Albert Einstein

  Think about it, and really _understand_ it.

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  // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept.
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