Jiri Kosina wrote when he became the floppy maintainer in 2012: "I have fought the current maintainer to the death in the Thunderdome"
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8206f664bfd7121e79f...
Denis Efremov sent the security patches to floppy driver. Jiri orphaned the driver: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc...
And now Denis wants to maintain the floppy driver...
Linus https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/16/370: "You'll have to fight the current maintainer to the death in the Thunderdome. What's that, you say?"