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On 2013-10-21 6:11 AM, Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I doubt he actually has the time to read every line of code submitted |
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> to the kernel, |
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That isn't what I meant at all... |
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What he *does* have the power to do, though, is if someone was able to |
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sneak in something outrageously bad that caused breakage, he would rip |
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it out at its roots, and probably make sure that whoever was responsible |
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for it getting in was either properly chastised (if it was |
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unintentional), or |
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> tldr: if the maintainer of some subsystem agrees, it's probably in. It |
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> takes a lot of trust to get to become a maintainer. |
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that trust would be lost, maybe for good. |
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And by the way, it is this trust that you speak of that is one of the |
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main reasons why I'm not worried about this. Linus has good people |
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around him, and none of them would allow something like it to happen either. |
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