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Linux Technical Advisory Board Issues Findings On UMN's Shady Kernel Conundrum In April, we first reported on Linux Kernel dev and maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman banned submissions from the University of Minnesota due to new concerning patches. It has also come to light that UMN has done questionable research on the Linux kernel team, and people were already wary. Now, the Linux Technical Advisory Board (TAB) has published its findings of the events and recommendations for the future. Over the rather lengthy audit of the situation, the TAB lays out a timeline of events from 2018 up through to...

Here is Linux Advisory Board's ruling on University of Minnesota's "hypocrite commits" May 6, 2021 10:10 EDT with 2 comments A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Greg Kroah-Hartman from the Linux kernel development and maintenance team, has banned submissions from the University of Minnesota (UMN) due to some questionable patches that they submitted. The issue received a lot of public attention particularly due to the email exchanges between Hartman and the student researchers being made public. The latter argued that the patches come in the form of "a new stati...