[immibis]

That's fine, but we would like to see the orders he received and the evidence. This patch is outrageous because of the lack of transparency, not the patch itself if there's a good reason for it. Linus and Greg appear to be not only not posting a reason, but trying to keep the reason secret.

[colejohnson66]

It's pretty obvious that it's due to sanctions, but they don't want to say it.

[immibis]

But if that's the case, why don't they?

[colejohnson66]

Lawyers.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/7ee74c1b5b589619a13c6318c9fbd0d6...

[immibis]

What about them? I can say "it's illegal for me to murder someone" without a lawyer being involved and so I can say "it's illegal for me to collaborate with company X" if that is true. Lawyers wouldn't stop me saying that unless something fishy was happening.