neither Linus nor Greg are Theos.
Only Theo de Raadt had the balls to say NO to intel's incompetence in creating a secure product. He didn't bother cleaning up someone else's shit, he decided to disable those features, e.g. HyperThreading(tm).
If Linus had the balls to yell at intel, or even flip the middle finger, like he did with novidia, he would've blocked all those patches that not only messed up with the kernel's internals, but caused regressions and the fucking patch that intel sent, disabled features for AMD's CPUs too... which AMD later fixed with another patch.
Intel's influence on the kernel and Linus' damage control with Intel was something that he should have heard a word or two.
It's not a coincidence that Theo in Greek means God, which is short for Theodore, God's Gift.