“Your code is shit.. your argument is shit.”
In reply to: Ingo Molnar: ""Re: announce new tree: fix all build warnings, on all configs"", 2008-10-20, Torvalds, Linus, 2017-04-25 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.2/1735.html, <br class="br"> In reply to: Andrew Morton: "Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist", 2009-6-24, Torvalds, Linus, 2017-04-25 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0906.3/00429.html, <br class="br">2000s, 2009
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