Arm’s Lorenzo Stoakes isn’t quitting Linux kernel development, though he’s stepping back from some of the patch-review work he used to handle. Stoakes is a principal software engineer at Arm and he’s a busy chap. Aside from writing the forthcoming book The Linux Memory Manager , in his CV [PDF], he says:
"I hold four maintainerships: memory mapping, memory mapping (locking), memory mapping (madvise) – essentially the entirety of the userland API to memory management – and the reverse mapping which connects physical to virtual memory." Even so, he plans to soon be doing a little less. Earlier this week he posted an email to the Linux kernel mailing list to say that he was planning to drop some of his workload. He explained:
"Given the current throughput in the kernel resulting from AI-generated series, I unfortunately lack the bandwidth to generally be able to offer review except in those areas I maintain. […] Apologies for doing this, but given the current trends I’d like to do something to make my inbox a little more manageable." As it happens, this came just the day after the Paramount Penguin himself said that he saw signs that the AI patch tide was "starting to turn."…