Re: Insults in the kernel-sources

[John Bradford]

Quote from Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Tobias Hirning wrote:
> 
> > have you ever tried a 
> > grep "insult" -i -r ./*
> >  in the sourcetree of the kernel?
> 
> Yeah, isn't it great ?
> 
> Hours and hours of fun, learning more about
> crappy hardware than you ever wanted to know.
> 
> > So do and think about, because the you can find to much of
> > insults in the sources.
> 
> Too much?  Considering how amazingly bad some
> stuff is (especially hardware bugs) I'm quite
> surprised there aren't more of those amusing
> profanities throughout the source code.
> 
> Maybe I should start hacking device drivers,
> so I can legitimately add them ?
> 
> What do you think ?

Patches specifically to add insults are probably 2.7 material :-).

John.
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