The TAB report on the UMN affair

The TAB report on the UMN affair

Greg's revert patches are going through the normal review process. They were reviewed by developers and when the original UMN commit was found to be valid, he dropped the corresponding revert patch. In cases where the UMN commits were found wanting, the revert commit was kept, and when appropriate, a fix-up patch was added that _correctly_ fixed the problem was added.

When the review process is completed, they will be submitted to Linus, and given the huge amount of work and review done by a large number of kernel developers, I would expect that Linus will take the patches, since they will be a strict improvement to the Linux kernel.

Tom's Hardware reported the following after they had interviewed Linus:

Saying the University of Minnesota's ban from contributing to the Linux kernel has been a popular topic of conversation among the open source community would be an understatement. Now, Linux creator Linus Torvalds has weighed in on the issue, and his response was milder than one might expect.

Whatever he did seems to have worked. Torvalds reportedly told iTWire that "I don't really know what to say" about the University of Minnesota ban. "I think the email thread is likely the most relevant information. [...] I don't think it has been a huge deal _technically_, but people are pissed off, and it's obviously a breach of trust."