Is it the new cool thing for Linux maintainers to step down?
Third time I’ve seen it recently…
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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Great! FreeBSD needs help with WiFi!
And this is how I see Linux quickly unravelling and planned insecurities creeping in over the next decade or so.
how so?
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I would've figured there were multiple standards and such requiring multiple drivers and maintainers, nonetheless manufacturers doing it themselves.
You're right that there are many drivers and people from manufacturers responsible for hardware families, but there still needs to be a maintainer for the subsystem as a whole.
That person reviews what the manufacturers and other contributors send in, to validate that things are still compatible where they touch in the kernel, and that the code is good enough. They then prep the commits of the subsystem for inclusion into the next kernel version and pass that to Linus, is my understanding.
One maintainer, multiple supported devices