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As someone who grew up behind the Iron Curtain in the 80s, GregKH's commit blurb came off as rather Orwellian -- the kind of thing the Communist Party's PolitBuro would use during a purge of its cardre...

I absolutely don't have enough information to either agree or disagree with the actual change, and that commit blurb is of absolutely no help whatsoever.

I have no love for the Russian government as they historically oppressed all their East European neighbors, my native country among them. I'm absolutely on the side of the Ukraininans in the current conflict. But vague, Orwellian "compliance" bullshit is honestly not a good look on people I want to look up to and respect.

There was Geert Uytterhoeven's polite follow-up question here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a520d1f5-8273-d67e-97fe-67f73... which has yet to receive an actual answer.

Optimistically, one may assume GregKH was compelled (by some combo of LF lawyers and 3-letter agencies) to be vague, i.e. an "I can't tell you, and I can't tell you that I can't tell you" sort of thing.

But then, Torvalds' epic takedown you're so fond of seems to contradict that theory, which is even *more* disappointing.

In conclusion, it's not the action itself that I find problematic, but rather the vague, again -- Orwellian, tone used to justify it, and the lack of transparency that is a HUGE disappointment...