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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

10 years closing as kernel maintainer (if I recall correctly my first update to MAINTAINERS was 16th day of this month 2014).

My philosophy when it comes to other developers, maintainers etc. is that:

1. No one is smarter or better than me.
2. I'm not smarter or better than anyone else.

As a developer I'm interested on other topics than kernel at the moment (could change, my plan is always no plan) although I have a few feature patch sets ongoing even ATM (e.g. TPM2 signers last updated April) but for most part I review, pick patch sets, and occasionally fix bugs. When it comes to kernel sec I'm the guy who is jack of all trades and master of none ;-)

So here's to next 10 year of madness 🍻

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@jarkko wow, congrats! How did you get into kernel hacking? I mean what got you interested? And what area did you start with?

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@jarkko thx for all your work! 🍻

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Jarkko Sakkinen

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@triskelion 1. You bump into a bug. 2. Download source code. 3. Locate the bug. 4. Fix the bug.

Covers all open source projects. I was working in the dark past with Nokia's Symbian, then moved to Linux middle-ware and sort of evolution took me where I am now.
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