Jiri Kosina wrote when he became the floppy maintainer in 2012: "I have fought the current maintainer to the death in the Thunderdome" https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8206f664bfd7121e79f...

Denis Efremov sent the security patches to floppy driver. Jiri orphaned the driver: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc...

And now Denis wants to maintain the floppy driver...

Linus https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/16/370: "You'll have to fight the current maintainer to the death in the Thunderdome. What's that, you say?"

One of the plot elements of the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome was a group of orphans, is my guess.

EDIT: Nope, or only indirectly. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20595137

Possibly a reference to the Mad Max movie...