linux-kernel - Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Folios as a potential Kernel/Maintainers Summit topic?

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Date:   Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:26:52 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        "ksummit@...ts.linux.dev" <ksummit@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Folios as a potential Kernel/Maintainers
 Summit topic?

On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:15:29 -0400 "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....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.