Comment by ThinkBeat

Linus has to have one of the most stressful and difficult jobs available.¹

The Linux kernel is part of so many different things, projects, products, companies, etc. A change can really duck things up.

Being conservative, and slow, in adopting new things is good for the main line.

You have idealistic developers who have seen a way to do something better, that is great. I know the feeling.

I have never done anything with the Linux kernel, but I have worked on some large legacy codebases. and it is to come in, look around, and just go "Gosh, this here is just slow, I'll just fix this". and it will be a good solution right there, but it might be suboptimal overall.

Chances are really good that you dont understand the entire picture when you "fix something", and someone who does, may not like the change. and even if the technical solution is clearly better from one angle.

I am glad I will never be involved in blessing or passing on 1.000.000 different changes being proposed as improvements to Linux every week.