Re: [tlug] Alan Cox's remark at Fosdem

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:45:12 +0900, Uva Coder
<uva.coder@example.com> wrote:

> To paraphrase, Alan Cox at Fosdem admitted that:
>      The Linux kernels's VM system was not understandable and because
> of this they were too scared to bug fix it.
> 
> If Alan is telling the truth then something is very wrong in the Linux camp.

He *is* telling the truth. I remember a telling comment from the VM
codebase from my Linux kernel hacking class that said something like:
"you are not meant to understand this code".

Ugh.

-Josh