I do some maintenance work for the linux kernel dvb and infrared subsystems. I reviewed and accepted some patches from umn.edu addresses. They looked fine to me, however they're all around error handling, which can get pretty tricky with long error paths.What else can I do than revert the lot?
tytso|4 years ago
There are another 68 commits which did not revert cleanly, in some cases because they were later fixed up, already reverted, or some other patch has touched those lines of code. This will require further manual work.
We basically at this point assuming bad faith for all UMN patches and reviewing them all before allowing them to stay in. (Or if they get reverted by default, someone else can manually apply them after they go through strict review.)
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice....
kentonv|4 years ago
I'm not sure how many people here understand this, but the University of Minnesota is quite large, over 50,000 people. That's comparable to the entire population of Palo Alto and is larger than MIT, CMU, and Stanford combined. Jeff Dean is a UMN alumni. I am too. The fraction of this set that is actually associated with the shady research is tiny.
It seems to me like the kernel maintainers are at best wasting a whole ton of their own time on this, and at worst re-introducing a wide range of bugs that UMN contributors had fixed over the years. A real "cutting off your nose to spite your face" situation IMO.
tedd4u|4 years ago
kapp_in_life|4 years ago
This seems like a gross overreaction to three commits that didn't even make it into mainline. Especially when done for commits years before the "research" was done. But I suppose nobody can miss a chance to let loose a little outrage