“When the same patchset arrived on the Linux Kernel mailing list
from multiple sources, Christoph Hellwig asked, ‘any reason we’ve
got this patchset posted by three people now? :)’ Andrew Morton
retorted, ‘presumably because I haven’t been merging it.’ He went
on to explain:“‘I was in bugfix-only mode from a week prior to 2.6.24 release
and during the merge window. Partly caused by the already-idiotic
amount of stuff we had queued for 2.6.24, partly because we needed
to concentrate on stabilising the 2.6.25 patchpile rather than
writing new stuff…'”