Linux memory management expert Lorenzo Stoakes at Arm who has been contributing to the kernel since 2014 is stepping away from some reviewership roles within the Linux kernel due to all of the noise from the flood of kernel patches resulting fro AI/LLMs.
Lorenzo announced today he is stepping away as a reviewer for the memory management (MM), core, misc, and Rust areas due to all the noise caused by AI. Lorenzo will continue serving as maintainer for areas of the kernel he oversees but is looking to lighten his load due to the increased patch burden in 2026.
Lorenzo commented in the patch series removing himself as reviewer for those areas of the kernel:
"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.
I have separated the patches into areas maintained by David, Andrew, and Alice + Danilo, so each can take the patches relevant to the subsystems, for convenience.
Apologies for doing this, but given the current trends I'd like to do something to make my inbox a little more manageable :)"
Lorenzo has been a longtime contributor to the Linux memory management code and also author of the book The Linux Memory Manager.
In another time line, Stallman and the GNU team don’t attempt a moonshot Kernel with Hurd and Linux kernel never gets its foot in the door. Many are still promoting Libre/Free software and not the morally corrupted open source that Linus and Eric Raymond fell into for quick success.
Yeah you should check your sources on that, because Linux is licensed under GPL so it is actually free software, while ESR is against free software and pro open source (meanwhile he complained on his blog that he barely has enough money while his software runs on thousands of devices (e.g .gpsd)).
Linus was sympathetic to GPL 2 but actively rejected GPL 3 because it gave too much power to the users. Linus said that under GPL 2 he gets source code and that all the matters, he isn’t really concerned with how it can be implemented or it is can be implimented afterwards.