Quotes of the week

As I have scratched my head for some times with rcu dynticks for the nohz cpuset things, I guess that in the meantime my unconscious mind developed the idea that rcu extended quiescent states were a worldwide topic that every people talk about in dinner with their family, that these even became the core stories of some lullabies. I can still hear its chorus, that makes one switching to idle peacefully...

The V4L2 spec needs to be fixed with respect to error codes. Driver authors are much more creative than DocBook authors.

The various POSIX_FADV_foo's are so ill-defined that it was a mistake to ever use them. We should have done something overtly linux-specific and given userspace more explicit and direct pagecache control.