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