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Linus Torvalds rages against ‘random turd files’ in Linux 6.15-rc1 directories


‘This thing needs to *die*’ he says, advising testing code be removed from normal builds.

Don't make everybody else see that disgusting thing and have those turds in their trees.” He then noted that he had decided to mark hdrtest as broken for now, to prevent its inclusion in regular builds. According to Phoronix, the Linux developer team has recently merged a large collection of open-source graphics card driver updates. On a similar note, hdrtest isn’t anything to do with High Dynamic Range (HDR) graphics, but is used by devs for verifying the integrity and self-containment of DRM h ea d e r files.

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