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It sounds like people are assuming the author should have known better. Is there some forum in which he could/should have vetted the patch before making this s
by CoastalCoder 3y ago
It sounds like people are assuming the author should have known better.
Is there some forum in which he could/should have vetted the patch before making this submission?
(Sincere question. I'm not very familiar with submitting kernel patches.)
- withinboredom 3y agoHow about ALL OF GOOGLE? Surely, someone there could have reviewed his code.
- dpe82 3y agoGoogle has a large number of experienced and dedicated kernel engineers who are well versed; it should have gone through thorough internal review with them first.
- keep_reading 3y agoI can't speak to the current organizational structure but historically there's Linus and a few others at the center (e.g, Greg KH) and then you have circles of trust extending out. Someone is the key person for subsystem A and they trust someone below them for driver or widget B and you're expected to pass your patches through these channels and by the time they make it to Linus's inbox you should have a branch/patch with commits that follow all the rules and are ready for a final QA inspection, essentially. Sometimes people and corporations with enough clout manage to slip by the normal processes and this is the result.