“Your code is shit.. your argument is shit.”

— Linus Torvalds

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,
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,
2000s, 2009

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