As a reviewer, I suspect it would be difficult for someone to get something through. And even if you eliminate every known Russia, we still face the issue of state actors that are not Russian or the Kremlin working through intermediaries.
Linus knows this, and it’s why we have been stepping up the quality of reviews even for innocuous seeming drivers and non-core parts of the kernel. Linus, for the most part, doesn’t want to deal with the legal complexities of working with teams in countries under sanctions.
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