They had already done it once without asking for consent. At least in my eye, that makes them—everyone in the team—lose their credibility. Notifying the kernel maintainers afterwards is irrelevant.
It is not the job of the kernel maintainers to justify the teams new nonsense patches. If the team has stopped being bullshit, they should defend the merit of their own patches. They have failed to do so, and instead tried to deflect with recriminations, and now they are banned.
It is not the job of the kernel maintainers to justify the teams new nonsense patches. If the team has stopped being bullshit, they should defend the merit of their own patches. They have failed to do so, and instead tried to deflect with recriminations, and now they are banned.