Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] appletalk: move the protocol out of tree

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

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 <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> > 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