Quote of the week

The feature driven duct tape engineering mode is progressing massively. Proper root cause analysis has become the exception not the rule.

In our normal kernel development it's just annoying and eats up review capacity unnecessarily, but in the face of a timeline or real bugs it's worse. Aside of wasting time for review rounds, at some point other people have to just drop everything else and get it fixed.

Even if some people don't want to admit it, the increasing complexity of the hardware technology and as a consequence the increasing complexity of the kernel code base makes it mandatory to put correctness and maintainability first and not to fall for the featuritis and performance chants which are driving this industry. We've learned painfully what that causes in the last year.