> Unless these linting tools go out there with source The tool is released as open source. > such large number of patches / fixes on Linux should always use a

> Unless these linting tools go out there with source The tool is released as open source. > such large number of patches / fixes on Linux should always use a decent open audit process All contributions to the Linux kernel are audited by the kernel development team. Look at kernel.org, you'll see that contributions are always signed off by at least one other kernel dev, and often also Linus himself.