[kapp_in_life]

>We basically at this point assuming bad faith for all UMN patches

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

[Denvercoder9]

There were more than three buggy commits, at least one of which is from this month

[kapp_in_life]

Other than the three in question no others were intentionally buggy. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[e-mail]...

Best to spend time auditing every commit in the kernel for bugs rather than grandstanding over the commits from one university's members.

[Denvercoder9]

They admit newer commits are part of a research effort and were sent with the intent to get feedback, but they didn't actually disclose any of that in the patch description [1]. Furthermore, lots of these patches are at best useless and at worst actively introduce bugs.

It's famously hard to distinguish malice from incompetence, but I don't think assuming bad faith is out of line here.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah...

[thu2111]

How do you know? These people already attempted to manipulate the kernel maintainers repeatedly, even after being caught. Nothing they claim about their own work can be trusted.

[kapp_in_life]

"These people" being every student/faculty member at the University of Minnesota for the past few years?