Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!?

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:02:13 +0100

sfrost@mail.snowman.net said:
> I had initially gotten the impression there were such things as
> 'SHIT[%d]' in the kernel, with nothing more than that. However, if
> you actually go look and not just fgrep I at least have found that
> many times the next line has lots of debugging info...

AFAI am concerned, the whole thing's academic anyway.

In my experience, if I get a 'should never happen' message, it's quite rare
that any existing debugging output is relevant. I usually need to add my own
printks to see what's happening. Often I end up just sending the entire report
directly to the maintainer of the offending section of code.

If it contains profanity, then it just simplifies my task - I can just send it
to DaveM without having to look up who the maintainer is :)

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