Quotes of the week

I did some Git digging - that ptrace check for /proc/$pid/mem read/write goes all the way back to the beginning of written human history, aka Linux v2.6.12-rc2.

I researched the fragmented history of the stone ages as well, i checked out numerous cave paintings, and while much was lost, i was able to recover this old fragment of a clue in the cave called 'patch-2.3.27', carbon-dated back as far as the previous millenium (!).

This series is the core mount and lookup infrastructure from union mounts, split up into small, easily digestible, bikeshed-friendly pieces. All of the (non-documentation, non-whitespace) patches in this series are less than 140 lines long. It's like Twitter for kernel patches.

VFS developers should be able to review each of these patches in 3 minutes or less. If it takes you longer, email me and I'll post a video on YouTube making fun of you.

Well, after things were basically working, we started fixing all the real bugs reported by an updated checkpatch.pl Any lines that obviously should have been longer than 80 chars were joined back to their proper length, and curly braces were moved to their proper locations. Tabs were all changed to 3 spaces each, we couldn't quite decide on 2 vs 4.

After that was done, we forward ported devfs. Proper disc management code in Linux was long overdue.