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Comment by smcleod | Hacker News Reader

In case it’s unclear to anyone, David Woodhouse (the person Linus is replying to / previous poster) works for Amazon and previously Intel[1] aka @dwmw2 on Twitter, ironically his twitter profile is: “Kernel hacker. Known to occasionally promote an attitude of violence towards complete morons.”

*[1] Correction, I thought (as does Google) that he still worked at Intel, but it was pointed out that he now works at Amazon UK.

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This isn't the case, he works for Amazon. Unless he also works for Intel but that seems unlikely.

Edit: Just to make this clearer you can see his email in the Signed-off-by of the patch under discussion: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/20/163

Thanks for pointing that out - I was under the impression he still worked for intel, before commenting I checked and all the top Google results suggested as much, I’ve corrected my comment.

* Principal Engineer - Amazon Web Services - Employed Oct 2016 – Present - Employment Duration 1 yr 4 mo

* Intel Corporation - Linux Kernel Engineer - Employed Jun 2008 – Oct 2016 - Employment Duration 8 yrs 5 mos

Source: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwmw2/

Note: Also, this is not and please do not turn this into a personal witch-hunt or anything like that, I am just adding context / clarification as to the mailing list thread.

Thanks for this, the beginning where he quotes himself threw me off.

No worries at all, mailing lists are a PITA to navigate at the best of times.

I, too, missed the double-indenting at the start and thought David was replying to Linus. Once I got to the textbook swearing I double-checked and figured it out.

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