Quotes of the week

MUWUHAhaha, watch as I destroy your attempts to reduce line count in your diffstat.

Kernel developers tend to look at code from the point of view "does it work as designed", "is it clean", "is it efficient", "do I understand it", etc. We often forget to step back and really consider whether or not it should be merged at all.

Very few people add printk()s as "inform the system logging daemon about an event". The prevailing mindset is that perfect code does not need any logging, so what is left are over 50,000 call sites of bragging and debugging code, occasionally massaged to be somewhat user friendly.