From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ih4ID-0000nn-9j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:18:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9EE6jPn030407; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:06:45 GMT Received: from hellserver.hellhoster.de (hellhoster.de [87.118.102.88]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9EE3P5b025420 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:03:25 GMT Received: from pluto.atHome (pD9E6C53D.dip.t-dialin.net [217.230.197.61]) by hellserver.hellhoster.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10DBCD88070 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:03:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by pluto.atHome (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:03:22 +0200 Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:03:22 +0200 From: Matti Bickel To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/pvfs2: ChangeLog pvfs2-2.6.3-r1.ebuild Message-ID: <20071014140322.GA3422@pluto.local> References: <20071014063029.GT23990@supernova> <20071014064540.GA27397@phaenix.haell.com> <20071014075021.GU23990@supernova> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: b0f67a73-6f72-4ca9-b727-28c6a560ec86 X-Archives-Hash: de51dea39a1a89f02202c91338965649 --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Steve Long wrote: > >> > Mixing 'gt' and 'ge' is a bad idea. > >>=20 > >> Just outa curiosity, why? > >=20 > > Because it's inconsistent and one generally assumes that people will be > > consistent with the way they test numbers. That way you only need to > > read the number rather than continually checking every single line to > > see how exactly it's tested for. > >=20 > I don't see how this is inconsistent either: two tests are needed, so that > both patches are only applied for >=3D2.6.22 and first only if >2.6.20. The point is that if you stick to "ge" OR "gt", everyone could just skip reading the comparison and focus on the numbers. Will be fixed in the next release, along with kernel-2.4 support... --=20 Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C) --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHEiGqfNMcoUhJ7GwRAlOdAKCVcVdKBrYII1DoUZLJgBFUtRA3fgCfSlM6 IfiOx2W/LrkpuNO1/YJ++tQ= =QyWO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list