Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

I tend to view arch specific embedded code as rather like very dubious parties. What goes on in other peoples' house out of sight is none of my business.

The 8250 however is core code so it should keep its clothes on and behave in a manner befitting its status.

-- Alan Cox

I also believe that Greg spends lots of lonely nights looking into git commits, drinking his favorite Latte and cursing at all the git patches that fix a bug that didn't have a Cc: stable tag attached. He use to have a huge mane of hair on his head before taking over as stable maintainer.

-- Steven Rostedt explains the stable series

If it's some desperate cry for attention by somebody, I just wish those people would release their own sex tapes or something, rather than drag the Linux kernel into their sordid world.

-- Linus Torvalds

I do get the impression that you're extremely unhappy with the way ARM stuff works, and I've no real idea how to solve that. I think much of it is down to perception rather than anything tangible.

Maybe the only solution is for ARM to fork the kernel, which is something I really don't want to do - but from what I'm seeing its the only solution which could come close to making you happy.

-- Russell King

This was discussed before, and it was felt that perhaps 75000 lines of ocaml code was not really appropriate for the Linux source tree.

-- Julia Lawall

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Quotes of the week

Posted Mar 24, 2011 17:02 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

The issue is that ARM is really a processor architecture, not a platform. In most cases there's a lot of commonality among systems that have processors that use a particular architecture, but this isn't really true of ARM. This is one of the things that makes ARM popular with system-on-a-chip vendors: they can drop in an ARM processor core for the CPU and not be restricted in how they have to design the rest of the system. But it makes the Linux kernel a bit like a bookstore that started with Greek, Korean, and Japanese, and was happily organizing their books by character set, and then added a section for the Latin character set, only to find that people who can read the Latin character set can still only read a small fraction of the books that use it, on account of a surprising lack of standardization in the pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.