If you&#x27;re suggesting the reviewer wrote the patch you&#x27;ve eliminated the developer but you still have someone higher up in the chain that needs to be totally incompetent. Even so, that&#x27;s still two people, not one.<p>Linus&#x27; web-of-trust is more like a pyramid of trust, he has a couple of lieutenants that he trusts but I highly doubt they in turn will blindly sign off on a commit on something as critical as this.