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Quotes of the week
So I can work with crazy people, that's not the problem. They just
need to _sell_ their crazy stuff to me using non-crazy arguments,
and in small and well-defined pieces. When I ask for killer
features, I want them to lull me into a safe and cozy world where
the stuff they are pushing is actually useful to mainline people
_first_.
-- Linus Torvalds
In other words, every new crazy feature should be hidden in a nice solid "Trojan Horse" gift: something that looks _obviously_ good at first sight.
There is only one real sensible solution for this: Do _not_ use
kgdb - which is the modus operandi of every sane kernel developer
on the planet.
-- Thomas Gleixner
OK... lookup_instantiate_filp() is a god-awful mess, so it's OK to
be confused by it - its authors definitely had been.
-- Al Viro(Log in to post comments)
kgdb Posted Jan 28, 2010 13:06 UTC (Thu) by eliezert (subscriber, #35757) [Link]
Debugging kernel code with prints or by reviewing the code and scratching you head is all very fine but when you are working on debugging hardware a kernel debugger is sometimes invaluable.
kgdb Posted Mar 22, 2010 23:53 UTC (Mon) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]
Yea, I wonder where all the real hackers have gone who don't have just
bleeding edge software (=buggy), but also bleeding edge hardware (=buggy).
You can't review "source code" for HW, or at least you have it available
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 28, 2010 21:00 UTC (Thu) by dkite (guest, #4577) [Link]
There must be a book in it.
The World According to Al Viro
Derek
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 29, 2010 0:15 UTC (Fri) by Oddscurity (guest, #46851) [Link]
The LWN.net Quotes of the Week coffee table book, I'd buy one.
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