netdev - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements.

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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:38:17 +0800
From: WangYuli <wangyuli@...ontech.com>
To: Mingcong Bai <jeffbai@...c.io>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various
 compliance requirements.

Haha, I received a similar off-list reply.

I deeply sympathize with Greg-kh's situation and his unspoken 
difficulties, although I don't understand why the MAINTAINERS file, as 
part of the kernel code, should be off-limits to non-maintainer 
developers, especially when this clearly isn't just about 'modifying the 
MAINTAINERS file.'

If any Linux developer tacitly approves of this, they're essentially 
giving a green light to some shady political actors from a certain 
country to coerce people into betraying it's constitution.

That's absurd. Again, my heart goes out to all (including Greg-kh) that 
affected by this.

I mean no offense to anyone, but this action will completely destroy the 
trust that developers worldwide have in the Linux kernel project and the 
entire Linux Foundation, and the politicians forcing you to do this 
clearly don't care about that.

To avoid becoming pawns in a political game and to prevent alienating 
all the developers who have contributed to the Linux kernel, I sincerely 
suggest that you maintainers revert this commit and promise not to do 
something like this again.

And I urge everyone who agrees that this is unreasonable to reply to 
"[PATCH] Revert "MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various 
compliance requirements." with their own "Reviewed-by".

Remember: What sets humans apart from animals is our undying spirit of 
resistance. We cannot be domesticated or tamed by others.

Finally, I'd like to share a quote from Norse mythology: Only warriors 
who die in battle are worthy of entering Valhalla.

-- 
WangYuli

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