From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <51E4BFA9.1030600@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:36:09 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt CC: Chris Ball , Darren Hart , Sarah Sharp , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Guenter Roeck , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML References: <20130715174659.GC15531@xanatos> <20130715180403.GD15531@xanatos> <20130715184642.GE15531@xanatos> <20130715195316.GF15531@xanatos> <20130715204135.GH15531@xanatos> <1373926109.17876.221.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130715223615.GI15531@xanatos> <1373932170.28142.24.camel@envy.home> <864nbv9qcm.fsf@void.printf.net> <1373944014.17876.255.camel@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <1373944014.17876.255.camel@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/15/2013 08:06 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Linus's point is that he wants to be honest, and cursing is his way of > giving you the most direct way to understand how he honestly feels. > What I don't get about anything of this is that I have always found Linus' being hyper-obviously over the top sarcastic when he goes on a rant. There is usually plenty of context to derive that from, too, even if you haven't seen him in person enough to virtually hear the smirk in his voice. This is a form of humor more than anything else, and at least I find it utterly impossible to be offended by it. As the main target of the rant this weekend, I (a) chuckled, and (b) said "I think I need to do some damage control". -hpa