On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 10:13:08AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, 18 Jun 2026 at 10:01, Andrew Lunn [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

If the appletalk community can take the workload off the top level
maintainers, respond to all patches within 2 to 3 days, give
Reviewed-by, or make change requests, it can probably stay in the
Mainline kernel. Otherwise it will move out of tree.

"2 or 3 days" is rather short.  If we would have to move all code
maintained by people who cannot respond to all patches within 2 to
3 days out of the mainline kernel, you'd end up with a networking
subsystem without supporting OS ;-)

I do agree that every subsystem is different, but that is the speed
netdev goes, often faster. There are around 150 patches a day
submitted, and in order to not drown in those patches, they need to be
processed fast.

It is however known for a sub-subsystem to move out of netdev to a
mailing list and a git tree of its own, and just send git pull
requests to netdev. It can then move at its own speed.

	Andrew