Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
kernellogger@fosstodon.org
Linus is a bit devious 😬
"'Kconfig: add some hidden tabs on purpose
[…] showed breakage in some third-party kernel config parsing tool.
[…] let's make sure it gets fixed. Because if you can't parse tabs as whitespace, you should not be parsing the kernel Kconfig files.
In fact, let's make such breakage more obvious than some esoteric ftrace record size option. If you can't parse tabs, you can't have page sizes."'
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/d5cf50dafc9dd5faa1e61e7021e3496ddf7fd61e
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Oleksandr Natalenko, MSE 
oleksandr@natalenko.name
@kernellogger shall this get a CVE assigned once backported into (un)stable?
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@kernellogger yeah he generally has good engineering instincts. even if not always the most diplomatic or subtle, haha
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@synlogic @kernellogger bonus points for following the best engineering principles and deploying breaking changes on Friday 😍
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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
kernellogger@fosstodon.org
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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
kernellogger@fosstodon.orgI would not go that far to call it that. It's not like this should affect any users; and sometimes it's better to make developers run into problems, as they otherwise will never fix them.
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