“This is garbage and it came in too late. I asked for early pull requests because I’m traveling, and if you can’t follow that rule, at least make the pull requests good.”
Linus told everyone to submit early because he was traveling. A Meta engineer submitted late anyway with sloppy RISC-V patches. The helper function was so bad Torvalds said it “makes the world actively a worse place to live.” The developer admitted he’s been dropping the ball. At least he owned it. The kernel has survived this long because someone with authority can still say no.