Linus Torvalds admits 'buggy crap' made it into Linux 4.8

theregister.co.uk

8 pointsArtemis24 comments

And 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...

I thought this article described a Linus rant in which he exploded at others for not following his fifteen year-old instructions regarding a macro?

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1610.0/00878.html

Actual email, rather than just the cherry picked quote from it...

An interesting SO post about what BUG_ON does

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6359700/using-assertion-i...

Essentially, it causes the kernel to panic immediately.

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