"I like to make sure some time passes between when a fix goes into Linus's tree and when I push it into -stable because time is often what shakes out the last remaining problems introduced by some change no matter how seemingly obvious the patch is."

"Look at anyone who is extremely nimble with the kernel, and ask them what they worked on to get going with development. Did Andrew Morton fixup whitespace errors when he was starting to become familiar with the tree? Did I?

"Every single argument you make that supports why you should not be investing the necessary time into the bug applies equally to the very developers you are so quick to quip at and want help from."

"About as cool as a fart in a spacesuit."

"It's ascii art I took it from someone's signature 12 years ago, it's meant to be the guy on the cover of some of the editions of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Don't Panic! :-)"

"This case is a good example to use the next time a stupid thread starts up about bug reports not being looked into. To me it seems clearly more a matter of the quality of the bug report."

"Yeah, if you develop at the glacial pace Solaris does, don't add any features to cyclics or work on scalability improvements, sure it can be bug free and untouched for 6 years."