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The OP responded. Basically, linux needs feminist spaces because FOSS communities are traditionally sexist spaces where their contributions are not welcome. The point isn't that no one else could have had the idea, that's absurd. The point is that no one had until that point, so it wasn't trivial. It's the banal idea that if we have spaces where marginalized groups are able to contribute without all of the extra baggage associated with being a part of the group. In the FOSS community, you face extra criticism as a woman.

[yummyfajitas]

I'm confused - did the traditional "go upstream to Linus" community reject her patch? Or did she somehow get a patch into the kernel via a sidechannel through linuxchix?

Near as I can tell, this was merely a case of the "hyper male sexist" community letting good code speak for itself.

[LyndsySimon]

I understood the article to be saying that the values that the author identified with the LinuxChix community assisted in bringing the issue to their attention, helping them understand that the use case didn't require the performance penalty that atime represented at the time.