On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:20:14 -0600 Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net wrote:
Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org writes:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:36:32 -0700 Kalesh Singh kaleshsingh@google.com wrote:
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
lol.
x1:/usr/src/25> grep "Fixes.*1da177e4c3f4" ../gitlog|wc -l 661
we really blew it that time!
A few years back I made a list of the most-fixed commits in the kernel history; unsurprisingly that one (I call it the "original sin") came out on top:
https://lwn.net/Articles/914632/
Perhaps the time has come to update that analysis.
Hah, thanks, that's a fun article.
It's a shame it's so recent. I do recall back in maybe 2002 a fresh young developer popped up with a massive rework of the IDE drivers. I promptly took this into my tree because I was having a hate on the IDE drivers at the time. omfg, what a disaster - this was the buggiest bunch of junk conceivable and it went away after a few weeks.
I'm glad to say that the developer (email handle at the time was "haveblue") has become better since then.