There are an awful lot of maintainers for smaller individual pieces/subsytems of the kernel. Take a look at the MAINTAINERS file to see who is responsible for the smaller chunks:
I've never even looked at any linux source code, but I still know there's too much of it to believe Linus reviews and signs off on every single commit personally.
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Linus is the single gatekeeper of Linux.
No, he isn't. He's the final gatekeeper but there are several of lower level gatekeepers/maintainers for different parts.
At least according to rumors, I've never invested the time to get involved myself.
There are an awful lot of maintainers for smaller individual pieces/subsytems of the kernel. Take a look at the MAINTAINERS file to see who is responsible for the smaller chunks:
I've never even looked at any linux source code, but I still know there's too much of it to believe Linus reviews and signs off on every single commit personally.