Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is so special and magical

Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by dis-sys on Thursday July 06, 2017 @08:39AM (#14709887)

This reminds me a similar incident that wasted me lots of time -

AMD Ryzen + Gigabytes motherboard does not boot on recent Ubuntu versions because the old buggy AMD GPIO module is enabled in Ubuntu by default. You might think "hmm, they might need that GPIO module to control some other hardware". Well - that module is only required when you have a AMD laptop touch pad, sadly, as of writing there is no AMD Ryzen laptop, period. All other distributions do not have the same issue - they don't enable it by default.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1671360

Enabling the very cute Cavium security processor (which will never ever be popular) by default in the linux kernel to potentially impact everyone? That is just plain stupidity demonstrated in a whole new level.

Everyone should be happy for the fact that Linus is doing what he can to avoid such stupidities to be repeated in the future.

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Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by tyingq on Thursday July 06, 2017 @08:52AM (#14709975)

I don't think anyone here is arguing the outcome, just the approach.

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Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by dis-sys on Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:04AM (#14710475)

Indeed, see my other comment, Linus is too nice to such company trying to sneak in this unwanted surprise purely for the benefit of their "security processor".

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Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by tyingq on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:00PM (#14711344)

>trying to sneak in

That's really the point. Assuming malice, and reacting in kind. It's quite possible no malice was involved here.

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