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Can't a higher-up maintainer intervene?

Can't a higher-up maintainer intervene?

Posted Nov 24, 2008 20:02 UTC (Mon) by nicodoggie (guest, #55309)
Parent article: The sad story of the em28xx driver

I'm not really clear about the kernel development process, but when it comes to a popularity vs a quality-of-code vote, can't a higher-up maintainer just evaluate, make decision and put his foot down?

It's might be quite a problem for Linux as a platform when developers with such access to the hardware specs as Markus can't even properly contribute to the mainline kernel driver.


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