OPINION
REAL TIME
Jon Masters is a kernel hacker who’s been involved with Linux for over 22 years, and works on energy-efficient Arm servers.
One of the more spirited discussions in a while began with a patch from Greg Kroah-Hartman titled “MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements”, which systematically removed various maintainers from the kernel’s MAINTAINERS file, but had very little context other than saying those removed (who appear largely to have Russian emails or be associated with Russian companies) “can come back in the future if sufficient documentation is provided”. The patch was posted directly to a list intended for raw patches, not the regular LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List), and was merged promptly without (obvious) public discussion.