Quotes of the week

The magic constant police and the whitespace police are the TSA of the Linux kernel. In theory they are there to make things safer, but silently everyone thinks that these were the little kids that always got bullied in kindergarten, and this is their revenge to the rest of the population.

FWIW, I'm all for performance backports. They do have a downside though (other than the risk of bugs slipping in, or triggering latent bugs).

When the next enterprise kernel is built, marketeers ask for numbers to make potential customers drool over, and you _can't produce any_ because you wedged all the spiffy performance stuff into the crusty old kernel.