Quotes of the week

Shared code is good, up to the point where the sharing gets so complex that even people with the capability are not willing to touch/fix the code. That's what happened to bufferheads and it's a pattern repeated across lots of kernel infrastructure code.

I stand by my statement that anyone who claims they want a stable driver api doesn't know what they are doing from a technical point of view. The amount of cruft that internal apis like this build up over years and decades will kill an operating system, and we have the prior art to prove it.

On behalf of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB), I'd like to announce that we are making changes to the voting procedures for the 2019 TAB elections. The one-line summary is that we are looking to move to an electronic voting system instead of paper ballots with the purpose of giving more members of our community a say in the membership of the TAB.