It's unfortunate the number of significant [1]Linux engineering losses at Intel this year. Beyond the staffing reductions throughout the company, seeing the loss of Linux engineering talent and many of their open-source contributors outside of kernel space too has been especially hard hitting to see. Intel for years has been very well regarded for their prolific open-source contributions and typically leading early hardware enablement within the Linux kernel, compiler toolchains, and related components. There's another hit to the Intel Linux team with one of their USB4/Thunderbolt maintainers departing the company.

Queued on Friday to the Thunderbolt "next" Git branch is [2]a patch making a MAINTAINERS file update. Intel engineer and Thunderbolt expert Mika Westerberg wrote:

"MAINTAINERS: Update Michael Jamet's maintainer entries

Michael Jamet is about to continue his professional journey outside of Intel and is stepping down as maintainer of Thunderbolt/USB4 subsystem, and the networking driver. Move him from MAINTAINERS to CREDITS.

Thank you, Michael!"

Jamet helped oversee the Linux Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt Network drivers in the kernel. According to [3]LinkedIn , Jamet has been the Head of Cloud and Software Engineering at Intel for the past decade. He led the THunderbolt/USB4 software group across US, Israel, and India.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Colin-King-Leaving-Intel

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/westeri/thunderbolt.git/commit/?h=next&id=00f2bf97544cdc7e5b166d19f896f5eaa2bb02ae

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjamet/?originalSubdomain=il