Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751034AbVLaArb (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:47:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750853AbVLaAra (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:47:30 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:20382 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750758AbVLaAr3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:47:29 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:44:06 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jan Engelhardt cc: Matt Mackall , Adrian Bunk , "Bryan O'Sullivan" , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: (OT) [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __memcpy_toio32 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <7b7b442a4d6338ae8ca7.1135726915@eng-12.pathscale.com> <1135780804.1527.82.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20051228145114.GL3356@waste.org> <20051230234628.GB3811@stusta.de> <20051230234400.GM3356@waste.org> 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: 894 Lines: 27 On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> > >> The head penguin peed on it last week. > > > >Actually "sprinkling with penguin pee" means that something is blessed > >(it's like a kernel baptism). Maybe that's not very civilized, but hey, > >penguins don't have thumbs, and are thus kind of limited in their actions. > >Don't be speciest. > > At least they could have used water instead of pee. Hey, when you live at -40 deg C for long times, I challenge you to find some liquid water to sprinkle around. Antarctica is one of the driest places on earth - never mind that there's tons of ice around. You use what you have. Linus - 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/