Quotes of the week

The number of times I have to explain to industrial and business customers that Linux doesn't suck but the defaults are stupid is astounding, and they then wonder why either the authors or their vendor is a complete and utter moron.

I have to say, I look over these patches and my mind wants to turn to things like puppies. And ice cream.

Your changelog fails the basic test by mentioning "corner case" simply because the whole futex code consists only of corner cases.

I realize that it's annoying to spend a lot of time on a specific implementation and then see competing code get merged. Unfortunately, this happens all the time, and the code we merge is often not the one that has had the most effort spent on it, but the one that looks most promising at the time when it gets merged.

And quite frankly, Christoph Hellwig has now _twice_ said good things about that driver, which is pretty unusual. It might mean that the driver is great. Of course, it's way more likely that space aliens are secretly testing their happy drugs on Christoph. Or maybe he's just naturally mellowing.