Comment by bjourne

John Johansen will survive. Linus has made it incredibly damn clear what "no user space regressions ever" mean. See f.e the similar rant from 2012: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 And it is his kernel so it is his rules. John Johansen admitted he messed up (http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1710.3/02539.html) and promised to handle things better in the future so all is well.