Agree ! Linus earned his right to rant. And he does care about good code (unfot a rarity these days) . Otherwise you and up with windows vista or in fact any kind of Windows . Look at OS X when Steve Jobs was there and now

I read it differently: he is saying that there is no reason to introduce a new function into this example as it can be done with easily readable code that’s same size also (that part is especially annoying) New function can easily have its own quirks and bugs - not mentioning dependencies etc . So to use it one must…