> By a guy who is arguably not an expert at the issue Linus is the defacto expert on the Linux kernel. His familiarity with the kernel and long history on thes

> By a guy who is arguably not an expert at the issue Linus is the defacto expert on the Linux kernel. His familiarity with the kernel and long history on these issues gives him the credibility to say a patch or code is completely nonsensical. This isn't Intel's first rodeo. They know what is expected and they continue to play games with their code. If they are pushing garbage then there's a very good chance they know it's garbage.