[$] The 2021 Kernel Maintainers Summit

The Kernel Maintainers Summit is an invitation-only gathering of top-levelkernel subsystem maintainers; it is concerned mostly with process-orientedissues that are not easily worked out on the mailing lists. There was nomaintainers summit in 2020; plans had been made to hold it in an electronicform, but there turned out to be a lack of things to talk about. In 2021,though, a number of interesting topics turned up, so an online gatheringwas held on September 24 as part of the Linux Plumbers Conference.

Read on for a summary of the discussions held at this year's Summit.