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Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by vegardno on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:05AM (#26870882)
That's not quite right. If IBM is listed as maintainers for this driver, then any patches would necessarily go through them to end up in the mainline tree. And they could decide to reject patches from the person in question.

Although if this happened and legitimate code was rejected by IBM, what could happen is a community backlash against IBM as a maintainer and the code could enter that way.

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Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by londons_explore on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:30AM (#26871022)
People higher up the directory tree can effectively override subdirectory maintainers, all the way up to Linus at the top.
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