Eudyptula Challenge Status report

You don't. If you were a subscriber you could filter me, if you didn't want to read comments from some usernames, e. g. those you find suspicious. (At least I understood so, have never used any filtering on lwn.)

> Doesn't sound like a real name to me :-)

That's your problem:) That's the way it is spelled in my passport, at least if comparing case-insensitively.

(Actually had I known that the name is displayed in discussion forums when registering, I might have chosen something else: In forums that require a full name I use it. Otherwise I use a nick.)

Anyway, what I was referring to:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...

The rule might be there for legal reasons. But in the end no trusted chain of PGP signatures is required, so mostly it's a question of personal integrity whether people really use their real names. I'd say at least 95% of the open source world works like this.

It's just a matter of style and trust. In the common sense, not the cryptographic one of course.

In the end, what I would have expected from my post is (maybe) a good argument, why a presumably well known kernel hacker would do this effort without telling his name. None has come up so far as far as I can see, so we should stop posting less and less informative follow-ups. At least I'll try to do so unless a novel viewpoint comes up.