Quotes of the week

Patch verification occurs in an artificial bubble of software run/known by kernel developers. It can take years before the code is exposed to real life situations.

Thou shalt not, in the language of C, under any circumstances, on the pain of death, declare or define a function with an empty set of parentheses, for though in the language of C++ it meaneth the same as (void), in C it meaneth (...) which is of meaningless as there be no anchor argument by which the types of the varadic arguments can be expressed, and which misleadeth the compiler into allowing unsavory code and in some cases generate really ugly stuff for varadic handling.

The only thing that gets drivers written is writing the damn driver.