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Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Folios as a potential Kernel/Maintainers
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:15:29 -0400 "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> What typically happens is if someone were to try to play games like
> this inside, say, the Networking subsystem, past a certain point,
> David Miller will just take the patch series, ignoring people who have
> NACK's down if they can't be justified.  The difference is that even
> though Andrew Morton (the titular maintainer for all of Memory
> Management, per the MAINTAINERS file), Andrew seems to have a much
> lighter touch on how the mm subsystem is run.

I do the Dave thing sometimes.  We aren't at that point with folios
though.  The discussions and objections and approvals are all
substantial and things are still playing out.