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

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:10:14 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Michael, Scott.

> BTW, just run "grep -rn fuck *" or whatever word your looking
> for, while in /usr/src/linux and it will tell you the filename
> and line number of each instance along w/ the line.

Let's start with the files involved...

Q> # pwd
Q> /usr/src/linux-2.2.9
Q> # grep -i fuck `find -name '*.[ch]'` | cut -d : -f 1 | sort -u
Q> ./arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c
Q> ./arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c
Q> ./arch/mips/kernel/irixioctl.c
Q> ./arch/mips/sgi/kernel/setup.c
Q> ./arch/mips/sgi/prom/tags.c
Q> ./arch/sparc/kernel/process.c
Q> ./arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c
Q> ./arch/sparc/kernel/sunos_ioctl.c
Q> ./arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c
Q> ./arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c
Q> ./arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c
Q> ./arch/sparc64/mm/init.c
Q> ./drivers/block/cmd640.c
Q> ./drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c
Q> ./drivers/net/sunhme.c
Q> ./drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c
Q> ./drivers/scsi/esp.c
Q> ./drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h
Q> ./fs/binfmt_aout.c
Q> ./include/asm-mips/mmu_context.h
Q> ./include/asm-sparc64/system.h
Q> ./lib/vsprintf.c
Q> #

Linus has made his viewpoint clear enough on this, so if you're a
maintainer and you're interested in joining the "Keep Linux Clean"
campaign, you only have to worry about that particular word if you're
responsible for any of the above files...

Also, a quick analysis points out the following architecture items:

Q> ix86 specific sections: 1
Q> MIPS spcific sections: 5
Q> SPARC specific sections: 6
Q> SPARC64 specific sections: 5

Q> General sections: 5

In the above, I classify an entry as being "specific" if it's either
in a file that's specific to that architecture, or in a section of a
general file that's surrounded by a #ifdef-#endif for the stated
architecture. "general" is thus anything that doesn't qualify.

I will state that there's two entries therein that really ought to be
cleaned up, for different reasons:

1. Word used gratuiously.
2. Word used to describe Linus Torvalds.

The following patch would clean both up sensibly, if applied, although
I would doubt the accuracy of the second one.

--- linux-2.2.9/drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h~ Tue Mar 16 00:11:31 1999
+++ linux-2.2.9/drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h Thu Jun 10 13:00:38 1999
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
#define REQUEST_QUEUE_WAKEUP 0x8005
#define EXECUTION_TIMEOUT_RESET 0x8006

-/* Am I fucking pedantic or what? */
+/* Am I pedantic or what? */
struct Entry_header {
#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
u_char entry_cnt;
--- linux-2.2.9/lib/vsprintf.c~ Mon Mar 15 19:19:05 1999
+++ linux-2.2.9/lib/vsprintf.c Thu Jun 10 12:57:00 1999
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

/* vsprintf.c -- Lars Wirzenius & Linus Torvalds. */
/*
- * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
+ * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds made a mess of it :-)
*/

#include <stdarg.h>

Best wishes from Riley.

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| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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