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by qznc 5000 days ago
Linus is the single gatekeeper of Linux.
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EternalLight 5000 days ago
No, he isn't. He's the final gatekeeper but there are several of lower level gatekeepers/maintainers for different parts.

At least according to rumors, I've never invested the time to get involved myself.

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dfc 5000 days ago
There are an awful lot of maintainers for smaller individual pieces/subsytems of the kernel. Take a look at the MAINTAINERS file to see who is responsible for the smaller chunks:

  grep -B1 ^M: /usr/src/linux-kernel/MAINTAINERS
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jrochkind1 4999 days ago
I've never even looked at any linux source code, but I still know there's too much of it to believe Linus reviews and signs off on every single commit personally.
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