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Quote of the week

[Posted September 10, 2005 by corbet]

We should have a strict rule: anybody who adds things like "must_check" and "deprecated" had better also be ready and willing to fix all the new warnings they cause - you're not allowed to just assume that "somebody else will fix it".

-- Linus Torvalds

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Quote of the week

Posted Sep 15, 2005 13:52 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link]

Ahh, I was rooting for this gem by davem:

> I'm about to reboot to see if this fixes the sparc64 problem, with my > luck it probably won't :-) It doesn't, but I think the patch is correct regardless.

Quote of the week

Posted Sep 17, 2005 0:46 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

I'm glad it didn't make it, because I wouldn't have understood what's quotable about it. I guess you had to be there.