Mothers and deceased pets are off limits … for the time being
There seem to be three possibilities here: Either Linus Torvalds has been kidnapped by aliens and replaced by a doppelganger; someone is simply impersonating him on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML); or – and I know this sounds crazy — the famously profane fellow is finally mellowing out.
Here’s an excerpt from a post to LKML in which someone claiming to be Torvalds discusses the latest release candidate of the Linux kernel and the amount of work that it has entailed, especially for Torvalds:
Guys, guys, guys. I’m going to have to start cursing again unless you stop sending me non-critical stuff. So the next pull request I get that has “cleanups” or just pointless churn, I’m going to call you guys out on, and try to come up with new ways to insult you, your mother, and your deceased pet hamster.
So don’t do it. Send me just fixes to serious problems. Ok? Anyway, the rc5 changes are pretty much all over: pretty much exactly half are drivers (networking, usb, gpu, mmc, sound..), with the other half being various other subsystems. Some arch updates: MIPS, arm, smattering of ia64, microblaze, s390 and some x86. And networking (non-driver), xfs, fuse, gfs2, jfs.
So there’s more than I’d like, but at least none of it looks particularly scary.
Go out and test. And again – please don’t make me curse you and your pets.
He even said please.
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My money is on doppelganger.
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