lol linux comments

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Here's a small collection of my favorite comments and various other text from the Linux kernel source:

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* What lunatic came up with this shit?

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#if 0 /* XXX No fucking way dude... */

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/* fuck me plenty */

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/* Binary compatibility is good American knowhow fuckin' up. */

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     <para>
       If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
     </para>

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* What follows below is fucking insane, even for IDE people.

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if (qpti->clock == 0) /* bullshit */

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/* Am I fucking pedantic or what? */

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	/* Ugly, ugly fucker. */
	struct ipt_rateinfo *master;

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* Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)

Little conversation, here:

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# XXX Why don't we do "source drivers/char/Config.in" somewhere?
# no shit

Another:

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* Status: Testing required (no shit -jgarzik)

And here they are. The two that tied for my #1 favorite:

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/* 2,191 lines of complete and utter shit coming up... */

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	/* Sun, you just can't beat me, you just can't.  Stop trying,
	 * give up.  I'm serious, I am going to kick the living shit
	 * out of you, game over, lights out.
	 */