* Brown, Len <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Keep in perspective, however, that we have over 200 functional issues > unresolved in bugzilla.kernel.org, and spending time on syntax changes > is generally a lower priority. well, it's your baby and they are your priorities (and i'm really not trying to interfere), but still - my personal experience is that syntax and functional correctness are strongly connected. I dont claim that this particular issue of lock initialization and abstraction is a big deal in itself, but cruft does add up over time and becomes a real obstacle. I usually spend alot of quality time cleaning up my own code, because i know that it directly results in a better ability to improve, extend or debug the code in the future. [ Then again, i dont write code for 9 platforms :-) ] ( for example the ACPI practice of allocating opaque 'handler' pointers that carry no type at [they are void *] is playing with fire. It in essence disables the remaining little bit of type-safety that C has. ) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
