>The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code. An increase of .35% This is horribly misleading; most of these lines of code are drivers, which this p

>The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code. An increase of .35% This is horribly misleading; most of these lines of code are drivers, which this patchset doesn't even concern. It's still a massive change that only a handful of developers will ever be able to review in entirety - a fact to which the size of the project is completely irrelevant - if anything, actually, it urges even more caution, given the implied complexity. Which I believe was (at least in part) parent comment's point - given the importance and ubiquity of the Linux kernel, this may be concerning. That said, I am very confident in the structures put in place by the kernel devs, their competence and the necessity for such a change - but trivializing a 100k LoC patchset because the project it's intended to land in is even more colossally complex isn't how I'd choose my approach.