Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Time to call it quits for the maintainer summit?

On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:26:36 +0100
"Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Voting on what though, I'm already over the number of times
> > maintainers with small potato problems think that the lives of
> > maintainers with big potato problems would be much simpler if they
> > just adopted their niche one-person mutt based review process.  
> 
> Ah good to know core mm is small potatoes ;)

From my understanding of what Dave ranted about last time, MM would be
small potatoes.

I think it's because DRM has a wide arrangement of different types of
hardware under one umbrella. It sounded to me a bit like herding cats.

MM may be a large and critical subsystem, but most hardware acts pretty
much the same. Where most developers are working together on a common
platform. Even with minor differences between architectures. Architecture
specifics of how to create memory mappings can be mostly be abstracted out.

I don't know DRM at all, but just from listening to Dave, it sounded to me
like everyone is doing things their own way and Dave needs to manage it all
with a more complex process. Where networking and arm may be the only ones
to rival the complex process of DRM.

Dave, feel free to correct me where I'm wrong.

-- Steve