I'm skeptical that these are the absolute platonic ideal of what the code should look like... You may be right that it's mathematically impossible to make these lines more readable, but we can't really debate alternate versions of this until someone sends us a patch. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel