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Linus Torvalds blasts kernel dev for 'making the world worse' with 'garbage' patches
When Linux's lead developer isn't happy, nobody's happy.
So, when Meta software engineer Palmer Dabbelt pushed through a set of RISC-V patches and admitted "this is very late," he knew he was playing with fire. In addition to the quality issues, Torvalds was annoyed that the offending code was added to generic header files rather than the RISC-V tree. That said, he's still a perfectionist who insists on high standards and discipline for kernel contributions, particularly for code affecting core components.
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