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Reading the paper, it seems to attempt to address concerns about ethics (none of the patches got past the email stage, they never got into git) and timewasting

Reading the paper, it seems to attempt to address concerns about ethics (none of the patches got past the email stage, they never got into git) and timewasting (although reviewing the emails will have taken community time, they point out that they did also fix some real code issues). See section "VI - A - Ethical considerations"

c0nfused 5y ago
The basic answer appears to be that while the paper claims that the lkml appears to be talking about removing patches from stable today. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YIAy1tH0miFxEJEk@unreal/ https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YIAy1tH0miFxEJEk@unreal/