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SubjectRe: Insults in the kernel-sources
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Le jeu 10/06/2004 à 21:02, Måns Rullgård a écrit :
> Tobias Hirning <Tobias.Hirning@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > Hi people,
> > have you ever tried a
> > grep "insult" -i -r ./*
> > in the sourcetree of the kernel?
> > (insult must be replaced by an insult)
> > Haven't?
> > So do and think about, because the you can find to much of insults in
> > the sources.
>
> This is because some lazy hardware devices will not function properly
> unless put in an angry state. Insulting them is the easiest way to do
> this.
A warning should be put somewhere, in the Readme for example. Like
"Warning : explicit source code comments" maybe the source code should
be rated (PG13?)
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