Re[2]: [linuxsh-dev] [RFC] LinuxSH code reorg

[Masahiro A. <m-...@aa...>]

Hello,

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:46:36 -0500
"M. R. Brown" <mr...@0x...> wrote:

> * Masahiro Abe <m-...@aa...> on Wed, Aug 01, 2001:
> 
> > With "Cleanliness", I must admit I'm split-minded. I mean, I'm not with
> > firm opinion on this yet. I can understand your point, but at the same
> > time, "functional but ugly" code may benefit some others who need that
> > feature early. I don't want to debate on this now, but just hope you may
> > understand my uncertain feeling. I'm not a kernel hacker (at least yet,
> > I think) but am an engineer who must release the outcome of my effort at
> > my boss's request 8-< Well, no more personal complaints.
> > 
> 
> Heh, I'm not a kernel hacker yet (I don't think I know enough about kernel
> development yet) either.  But I do want to strive for quality code, and I
> believe that others should at least try to follow the guidelines set forth
> when developing new code.  I do understand the sentiment of getting working
> code out there for everyone to use, but why not spend the extra day or week
> working on the code so that it's better quality?  And while doing that you
> teach yourself more about how the underlying kernel works.

It may not always be possible to spend the extra day, depending on the
situation. I don't say that code quality can be neglected. It should be
high. I may be thinking about the special case...

In some case, bad code can be a starting point of polishment. Oh, this
can be done with "published patch" approach also...

Just my random thoughts, maybe not in a quality for the post ^^;)

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Masahiro ABE, A&D Co., Ltd. Japan