I find it funny because the kernel of mostly written in C and guess what you have to do all the time in C?
I have to agree. It’s disorganized and lazy. Unless they can state a reason to do it this way, it’s like dumping everything in your pockets into one drawer. Then it becomes your junk drawer, where everything both exists and doesn’t, depending on what you’re looking for.
Ouch
He’s not wrong, though.
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Agreed. Still, there’s a polite way to do things.
Dumping bullshit into a software commons isn’t very polite either.
Since when asking “please don’t do X” while emitting an opinion/explanation on the matter is impolite?
Can you explain yourself?
And yet this is tame for him.
It’s best when reading his creative prose to extract the meat of it and do your best to ignore the rest. His choice of words is crude at best, but at least he’s also suggesting improvements with them rather than just spewing expletives for the sake of it.
It’s by far his biggest flaw, but also one that he’s acknowledged and worked on over time at least.
Compared to rants Linus is famous for, this is polite.
I whole-heartedly agree.
