Torvalds also admitted that he doesn’t know every line of code in the Linux kernel at this point and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
“Nobody knows the whole kernel anymore,” Torvalds said. “Having looked at patches for many years, I know the big picture of all the areas in the kernel and I can look at a patch and know if it’s right or wrong.”
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