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Since the release of the 5.5 kernel in January 2020, there have been almost
87,000 patches from just short of 4,600 developers merged into the mainline
repository. Reviewing all of those patches would be a tall order for even
the most prolific of kernel developers, so decisions on patch acceptance
are delegated to a long list of subsystem maintainers, each of whom takes
partial or full responsibility for a specific portion of the kernel. These
maintainers are documented in a file called, surprisingly, MAINTAINERS.
But the MAINTAINERS file, too, must be maintained; how well does
it reflect reality?