Quotes of the week

Don't think for a minute that something won't get done just because its obviously inappropriate.

So I think that line should go away entirely. It doesn't have any meaning.... I realize that I wrote it, and that it as such must be bug-free, but I suspect that removing that line is even *more* bug-free.

Tracepoints are being added like the US deficit. We need to set some rules somewhere. Either by making a library that can handle small changes (like the one we are discussing, even though a memcpy should cope), or we need to put a kabosh to adding new tracepoints like they are the new fad app. Perhaps we should put the same requirements on new tracepoints as we do with new syscalls.

Work on dma-buf was originally started with the goal of unifying several competing "memory management" systems developed with different ARM SoCs in mind. It would be unfortunate if restricting its use to only GPL-licensed modules caused dma-buf adoption to be limited.