>> I assume that a software development taste can evolve, can't it? > > So far, you have gotten several down votes for this kind of change, I am curious when more contributors will share corresponding opinions. > and no enthusiasm. How many software designers and developers can become enthusiastic about better exception handling to some degree? > The code that is performance critical, you should probably not touch, ever. I imagine that technical evolution will result in further considerations so that "unchangeable" components can be adjusted once more. > The people who wrote it knew what was important and what was not. I might come along at some places where the affected knowledge will also evolve. Regards, Markus -- 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