On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:23 AM, walter harms <wharms@xxxxxx> wrote: Hi Walter, > > as rule-of-the-thumb: just do it. Thanks for this advice. I'm gonna do just that. > > Convenience functions like trim() are added add irregular intervals because > they appear only if someone spots a pattern that he things is worth the effort. > Older Code does not know about it, so changes are required through the whole > code (look at patches from Julia Lawall, she has developed a tool to spot pattern). > > How does it look from a maintainers perspective ? > 1. He can remove a function from your code and reduce what you have to maintain -> good > 2. He has a special need and need its own code -> but at least you know about it now :) > > in short: you can make nothing wrong Okey, thanks again. Regards, Ezequiel. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
