Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
by Denvercoder9 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:18PM
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They admit newer commits are part of a research effort and were sent with the intent to get feedback, but they didn't actually disclose any of that in the patch description [1]. Furthermore, lots of these patches are at best useless and at worst actively introduce bugs.
It's famously hard to distinguish malice from incompetence, but I don't think assuming bad faith is out of line here.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah...
Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
by thu2111 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:12AM
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How do you know? These people already attempted to manipulate the kernel maintainers repeatedly, even after being caught. Nothing they claim about their own work can be trusted.
Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
by kapp_in_life on Saturday April 24, 2021 @01:46AM
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"These people" being every student/faculty member at the University of Minnesota for the past few years?
Best to spend time auditing every commit in the kernel for bugs rather than grandstanding over the commits from one university's members.