Re: Insults in the kernel-sources

From: Måns Rullgård
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 14:10:24 EST


Tobias Hirning <Tobias.Hirning@xxxxxx> 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.

--
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxx

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