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Linus Torvalds admits 'buggy crap' made it into Linux 4.8
- digi_owl 10y agoAnd this is why i trust Torvalds, he is willing to publicly chastise himself for screw-ups regarding the kernel. This on contrast to certain other Linux related projects where the devs keep trying to pass the blame to anyone and anything other than their own handiwork...
- pc2g4d 10y agoI thought this article described a Linus rant in which he exploded at others for not following his fifteen year-old instructions regarding a macro?
- digi_owl 10y agohttp://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1610.0/00878.html http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1610.0/00878.html Actual email, rather than just the cherry picked quote from it...
- zymhan 10y agoAn interesting SO post about what BUG_ON does http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6359700/using-assertion-in-the-kernel http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6359700/using-assertion-i... Essentially, it causes the kernel to panic immediately.