>This is exactly why I blame Linus, this discussion (a civil one, hopefully ) but also nasty wars inside the kernel would not exist if he had the "straightforwa

>This is exactly why I blame Linus, this discussion (a civil one, hopefully ) but also nasty wars inside the kernel would not exist if he had the "straightforwardness" as he likes to use as an excuse for many of his sins, to say NO to this. You're making the pure assumption that he secretly wants to cancel the project but is afraid to, rather than that he (and Greg KH, and many other maintainers) actually wants the experiment to succeed for a variety of reasons. Which he is actually quite "straightforwards" about, if you look up his actual words on the matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvuEYtkOH88&t=6m06s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvuEYtkOH88&t=6m06s