[codehero]

Linus' law may scale, but even assuming these eyeballs produce bug fixes, applying those fixes to the source tree does not scale as well.

I have taken time to put my eyeballs on bugs in spidev's ioctl() and TI's spi driver but my bug fixes are not in the tree.

Signing off, adhering to the source standard and attaining enough respect from the established devs to get your fix accepted are the limiting factors.

I already invested significant amounts of time finding these bugs and fixing these issues; I don't have any more to spend to make Mark Brown or other kernel devs happy.

I don't even care about getting the credit for my fixes, but it seems the kernel devs don't want to take my code to next step and get it integrated.