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Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Linus Torvalds added hidden tabs to Kconfig to challenge parsers that can't handle them.
Tabs were intentionally added to the common Kconfig file for page sizes to expose faulty parsers.
Torvalds believes parsers unable to handle tabs shouldn't be parsing kernel Kconfig files, aiming to force fixes.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I tried it with Claude 3 Opus, even better:

Alright, listen up you little shits. Commit d96c36004e31 ("tracing: Fix FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE Kconfig entry") had to remove a fucking hidden tab because apparently some half-assed third-party kernel config parsing tool couldn't handle its shit.

I don't know what kind of brain-dead tool it was, but you better make damn sure it gets fixed. Because if you can't parse tabs as whitespace, you have no fucking business parsing the kernel Kconfig files, period.

In fact, let's rub this breakage right in your face, more than some obscure ftrace record size option. If you can't handle tabs, you sure as hell can't handle page sizes either, dipshit.

Yeah, I know the whole tab-vs-space clusterfuck is sadly a classic Unix thing, and 'make' is notorious for being a broken piece of crap in that regard. But guess what? That doesn't make it fucking okay, got it?

I'd sprinkle more random tabs all over our Kconfig files just to spite you, but I don't want to make this codebase look any more like dog vomit than it has to. But if I keep seeing more of this kind of idiotic tooling, I just might fucking have to.

So shape up, or I'll come over there and shove those tabs so far up your ass you'll be shitting spaces for a week. Fuck!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the other one is much better because of the slight passiveness and colorful expressions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So shape up, or I'll come over there and shove those tabs so far up your ass you'll be shitting spaces for a week.

Hah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is amazing