Comment by scott00
4 years ago
Personally I don't think you can become an expert in Linux kernel programming without sending patches. So over the long term, if you don't let non-experts submit patches then no new experts will ever be created, the existing ones will die or move on, and there won't be any experts at all. At that point the project will die.
but Greg had the correct that patches sent were in many part easily seeable as bad for any persons who are knowing C. each person must have some time new to C, and some time new to kernel, but those times should not be same.