Re: systemd

[Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 04:06:08PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Kernel patches from Lennart were properly reviewed, and accepted only after
> the maintainers and subsystem maintainers approved them as an acceptable
> solution for the general problem they were supposed to be addressing.
> 
> Lennart would not be able to easily push random crap to the kernel upstream
> even if he tried to.  It is a very different situation from userland.

How so? Do you believe Redhat, Fedora etc. ship anything Lennart writes without
any kind of review? Do you think he has carte blanche as part of his employment
to do whatever he wants?

He is a convenient scapegoat. It's absurd to avoid code he's written, and
reductio ad absurdum, it would be absurd to avoid the kernel.