I'm not an expert but: you can look at the log for any given file and see who authored what commit, who reviewed, who actually committed. For example, a differe

I'm not an expert but: you can look at the log for any given file and see who authored what commit, who reviewed, who actually committed. For example, a different change by the same author [1] And you can search the mailing list[2] by commit hash/author name/etc and look at relevant discussion trees to see lively patch discussion and criticism/final pull requests/etc. I don't believe the changes in question have been merged. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/mfd/intel_pmt.c?id=aa47ad3f853ae72c32b7e46dfc8bc2c8dc2dbad7 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/?q=David+E.+Box https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/?q=David+E.+Box