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Re:AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AM... by gigatexal on Friday December 09, 2016 @05:39PM (#13142487)
That's how the kernel development works. As far as I can tell, if you get maintainer status from Linus you can do as you please for the understanding is that you're acting as he would.
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Re:AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AM... by chx on Friday December 09, 2016 @05:51PM (#13142566)
As Dave said:

> Given the choice between maintaining Linus' trust that I won't merge 100,000 lines of abstracted HAL code and merging 100,000 lines of abstracted HAL code I'll give you one guess where my loyalties lie.

He is acting in a way he thinks would keep Linus' trust. Also, usually the maintainers have far superior technical knowledge of their areas to Linus. I mean, Linus is just one guy and each maintainer have their own specialty.

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