> If you can point me to a single instance of Linus "abusing" someone > who is not one of his trusted persons, who really should be able to > deal with that, or someone who did not provoke him to go into rant > mode, then I'm all on your side.
Well, the one that comes to mind is Alan Cox and the TTY driver in 2009. And I still have to agree with his point about Linus's more absolute pronouncements on user-space regressions: taken literally, they mean that breaking rootkits is not okay. Here's the thread if anyonw would like to judge "who started it": http://marc.info/?t=124870111900001 That said, I strongly agree with this point: > Linus simply has to trusts his top level maintainers, because he > cannot review, audit and check 10k patches which flow into his tree > every merge window himself. > > So if he finds out that someone who has his ultimate trust sends him a > pile of crap, he tells that person in his own unmisunderstandable way > that he's not amused. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
