On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 05:34:54PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:47:15 +0000 Simon Horman wrote:

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+Limit patches outstanding on mailing list
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+
+Avoid having more than 15 patches, across all series, outstanding for
+review on the mailing list. This limit is intended to focus developer
+effort on testing patches before upstream review. Aiding the quality of
+upstream submissions, and easing the load on reviewers.

Thanks for adding this.

In practice I think the limit is also per tree (net vs net-next)
to avoid head of line blocking fixes.

Thanks Jakub,

In v2 I'll update the wording to state that the limit is per-tree.