Quotes of the week

To many kernel developers, the most scary ideas/patches are not the ones which are totally outlandish and crazy (such as making the kernel be able to parse and execute SQL-like statements as arguments to a modified readdir system call, in the grand but quixotic goal of unifying filesystems and databases), but the ones which are just sane enough to be initially appealing, but which ends up being a millstone making future development and backwards compatibility efforts extremely difficult. At least, this is the fear which I suspect drives the often harsh reception some have received (regardless of whether that reception was justified or not).

This is why changing core MM is so worrisome - there's so much secret and subtle history to it, and performance dependencies are unobvious and quite indirect and the lag time to discover regressions is long.

Having this name is very convenient, people review my drivers like crazy.