Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

Ancient Slashdot reader szo shares a report from Phoronix: Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers. [Greg Kroah-Hartman who authored the patch] simply commented in there: 'Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. They can come back in the future if sufficient documentation is provided.' The commonality of all these maintainers being dropped? They appear to all be Russian or associated with Russia. Most of them with.ru email addresses. Linux creator Linus Torvalds has since commented on the situation: Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about. It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to 'grass root' it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything. And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the 'various compliance requirements' are not just a US thing.

If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by 'news,' I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam. As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.

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