I was specifically referring to this post by Linus himself http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/774824 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/774824

I was specifically referring to this post by Linus himself http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/774824 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/774824 in which he states >The apparent inability (and perhaps more importantly - total unwillingless) from the PaX team to be able to see what makes sense in a long-term general kernel and what does not, and split things up and try to push the sensible things up (and know which things are too ugly or too specialized to make sense), caused many PaX features to never be merged. Although there are other posts since debating the same point such as this one https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/25/141 https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/25/141