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

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, 18 Jun 2026 at 10:01, Andrew Lunn <[email protected]> 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 ;-)

git grep three.*week -- Documentation/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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