Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough"

The Slashdolt writes "After a stern criticism from Linus, the long-time kernel hacker Alan Cox has decided to walk away as the maintainer of the TTY subsystem of the Linux Kernel, stating '...I've had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix it. Have fun. I've zapped the tty merge queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer can send them to the new maintainer.'" A response to a subsequent post on the list makes it quite clear that he is serious.

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An added point here, is that pretty much through the whole 2.3 and 2.4 kernels, Alan might as well have been the head of kernel development. I haven't kept up with 2.6, but Linus has pretty much always been terrible, depending on everyone else in the community to fix the utter crap that he half-wits.