[PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed May 14 05:52:39 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 02:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:39:19 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 02:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:44:12 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'm sorry if that offends you, but making code more readable helps me
> > > > find real bugs, and that is more important to me than the 80-column
> > > > rule.
> > > 
> > > Code which wraps due to excess line sizes is less readable that code
> > > which avoids this.  Your rhetorical trick of saying it is "more
> > > readable" is of course unsubstantiated and incorrect, which makes
> > > everything else you say baseless.
> > 
> > Andrew, I'm disappointed in you. You actually _removed_ a concrete
> > example which substantiated my observation (an observation which Linus
> > has also made), and then called it 'unsubstantiated and incorrect'.
> > 
> 
> Some random individual anecdote is neither here nor there.  I'm sure
> there are counter-anecdotes, but so what?

> Code which wraps in an 80-col display is hard to read in an 80-col
> display.  Often very hard.

Your right.

-- 
dwmw2




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