nixCraft 🐧
@nixCraft@mastodon.social
Damn.
Linus Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse'
Full thread https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/mhng-7755CB81-B0C6-42D3-82B5-CE37669F176C@palmerdabbelt-mac/
News article https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/torvalds_blasts_tardy_kernel_dev/
rhempel@rhempel@mstdn.ca
@nixCraft@mastodon.social I get where he is coming from - and ranty or not, he is doing the right thing.
Sometimes it takes a bit of pushing to get someone back on track, or to force a decision on what is really important to them.
The kernel is mission critical, and adding technical debt with poorly named and placed helper functions is a classic thin edge of the wedge.
If a company is supporting open source development by allowing developers to work on it - then it's nice if the regular work schedule can accommodate this vital contribution.
The rant is against technical quality and an impossibly late merge request - no time for feedback or fixes.
I would be pissed off too :-)