Quotes of the week

NOTE: When tempted to use multibyte bitfields on fixed-layout data, you need to look in the mirror, ask yourself "what will they do to me during code review for that?", shudder and decide that some temptations are just not worth the pain.

The longer you queue stuff up, the more painful having to change stuff at the beginning of that queue becomes. It can invalidate everything else you worked on.

The only sane way to operate is to post your work early and often, or else you'll live in a world of hurt, and it will be nobody's fault but your own.

linux-next is not a tree that you can track. It's a tree that you can fetch _once_ and then throw away.

So what you can do is to "fetch" linux-next, and test it. But you MUST NEVER EVER use it for anything else. You can't do development on it, you cannot rebase onto it, you can't do _anything_ with it.

We get better regression tests from getting stuff upstream. However upstreaming stuff to Linus is not how to find regressions, it helps but its suboptimal in that he will eventually ignore us if the regression rate gets too high.