Messages in this thread | | | Date | 17 Jul 2013 23:50:26 -0400 | From | "George Spelvin" <> | Subject | Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review |
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> 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.
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