Linus On GEM Patches: UNTESTED CRAP

[energyman]

some people might think that Linus' style is abusive - but sometimes you just need to call the crap by its name. And he never abuses noobs - only devs who really should know better.

[deanjo]

some people might think that Linus' style is abusive

I see it more as "Tough Love".

[wswartzendruber]

I think Intel's counting on the community to test and clean this up.

[Ex-Cyber]

I thought this was far more troubling than anything Linus wrote:

I don't generally trawl the Fedora kernel build logs, and the amount of warnings we have there, new ones just get lost in the mists.

[energyman]

makes one rething the choice of distro, huh?

[barbro]

Do these patches contain KMS? or do we have to wait until .29

[Dragonlord]

Linus is right, no matter if he said it in a moderate or harsh tone. Many developers nowadays churn out code which makes a real hacker cry and vomit... especially when proposed for inclusion into one of the most vital areas of an operating system: the kernel! Go on Linus... we need clean hacker style code not ATI driver blob crash festival code or intel we-are-the-greatest mess code ( looking at VARIOUS drivers from them being the biggest crap since a long time ).

[etymxris]

I wish my project managers were more like Linus and actually cared about code quality and cleanliness. It's really not that hard to write good code, and it ends up saving you time in the long run.

In any case, if I got a reply like that to my code submissions I'd just laugh, and then try to put on my serious face before I responded.

[airlied]

makes one rething the choice of distro, huh?

Do you think any kernel distro maintainers trawl the warnings in their build logs?

You must live in a different world than everyone else.

Dave.

[energyman]

some distros patch less than others.