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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:31:41 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1
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> has to get the blessing of the maintainer. On the other hand,
> as you just said, the maintainer has no such obligation.

Umm nope. As a maintainer if you feed Linus stuff you wrote that he
thinks is a bad idea it will not go in, and you'll get an explanation of
why. 

The process isn't perfect (eg removing half-vanished maintainers isnt
handled well) but it isn't as you claim.

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