[gkya]

> Especially those examples (of "most people") that coordinate submission from 5,000 people mostly interacting directly with them.

This is wrong. He has said himself on video multiple times that his correspondents are the subsytem maintainers, which are way fewer in number (a handful of people).

[beagle3]

He is on the LKML[0], and does respond to many people, not just the handful of maintainers. I'm sure he doesn't read the entirety of the LKML (hundreds of messages per day), and for sure he has a private channel (mailing list or otherwise) with subsystem maintainers, but he DOES correspond with a lot more than that handful, and when I was reading the LKML, he would even occasionally respond to first-time posters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_mailing_list