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Take a look at the list of major contributors to the kernel, just covering top 50 between v5.0 and v5.3:

   $ git log v5.3...v5.0 | grep "^Author:" | cut -d"@" -f2 | sed 's/>//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -50
        167 samsung.com
        188 sang-engineering.com
        190 acm.org
        192 broadcom.com
        196 collabora.com
        206 ingics.com
        207 infradead.org
        207 lixom.net
        219 pengutronix.de
        223 glider.be
        232 c-s.fr
        232 microchip.com
        247 mediatek.com
        251 roeck-us.net
        329 st.com
        341 fb.com
        341 socionext.com
        346 netronome.com
        360 ti.com
        380 canonical.com
        384 linuxfoundation.org
        387 nvidia.com
        388 codeaurora.org
        398 arndb.de
        424 embeddedor.com
        460 renesas.com
        469 chris-wilson.co.uk
        498 baylibre.com
        504 suse.com
        516 chromium.org
        539 suse.de
        540 lst.de
        554 oracle.com
        652 nxp.com
        682 bootlin.com
        690 davemloft.net
        697 linutronix.de
        774 arm.com
        781 linux.ibm.com
        948 google.com
       1052 linaro.org
       1230 huawei.com
       1315 mellanox.com
       1333 linux-foundation.org
       1477 linux.intel.com
       1501 kernel.org
       1851 amd.com
       2229 redhat.com
       2548 intel.com
       4373 gmail.com
There's the usual suspects in there (after a quick double check, it turns out microsoft.com just missed the cut-off with 140 commits, plus 2 from linux.microsoft.com, Amazon has authored 71, and alibaba have 139)

No one wants to maintain out-of-tree patches, it's a complete pain. Google was doing it extensively with the Android project for the longest time, but they've been working hard at getting those all in to upstream to drastically reduce the work involved in updating the Android kernel.




Keep in mind most of us don’t use our @fb.com addresses. LWN keeps track of companies by keeping track of who works where so our numbers are much higher than this list shows.


I believe the same applies to Amazon to an extent, too.


Applies across a bunch of companies (I use my IBM email but I know quite a few kernel devs here who prefer to keep their open source contributions under their personal email).


A lot of them have it tied to PGP and other stuff so it makes sense. Identity matters in OSS.




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