Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264578AbUFLCsY (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:48:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264582AbUFLCsY (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:48:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:31886 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264579AbUFLCsR (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:48:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:48:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Tobias Hirning cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Insults in the kernel-sources In-Reply-To: <200406102053.48615.Tobias.Hirning@gmx.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1064 Lines: 34 On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Tobias Hirning wrote: > have you ever tried a > grep "insult" -i -r ./* > in the sourcetree of the kernel? Yeah, isn't it great ? Hours and hours of fun, learning more about crappy hardware than you ever wanted to know. > So do and think about, because the you can find to much of > insults in the sources. Too much? Considering how amazingly bad some stuff is (especially hardware bugs) I'm quite surprised there aren't more of those amusing profanities throughout the source code. Maybe I should start hacking device drivers, so I can legitimately add them ? What do you think ? -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/