Sir Overstreet still seems insistent on having done no wrong on account of fixing user bugs taking priority over literally everything, so clearly there’s a mindset clash that’s gonna prevent a re-merging unless that Torvalds decides to change the same procedure he’s been doing for the past 2 decades or Overstreet knocks his own ego down a peg.

Edit: I think this makes for some good reading: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/8/9/427

I’ve been following kernel development for something like three years using LWN and other sources.

I can’t remember anyone earning the level of hostile treatment he did and getting kicked out.

I don’t see how it would ever happen.