My point was more about collective punishment than about the value of the contributions. Unrelated people at UMN that have contributed code to Linux shouldn't have their work thrown away.
That said, there were hundreds of reverted commits and many of them were fixing real security bugs. In particular, the same security researchers that did the questionable experiment has also contributed many real bug fixes.
That said, there were hundreds of reverted commits and many of them were fixing real security bugs. In particular, the same security researchers that did the questionable experiment has also contributed many real bug fixes.