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by PragmaticPulp 1620 days ago
> 99.99999% of software in big corporations will not have even 5% of the quality of the Linux kernel.

Having done a lot of work on the kernel, I think you’d be surprised at the relatively low quality of a lot of kernel drivers.

The core code is generally quite good, but it’s not true that the kernel is full of pristine code.

I’ve worked at multiple companies where code quality standards exceeded a lot of the weirder stuff I’ve seen (and often fixed) in kernel driver code.