The many names of commit 55039832f98c
The kernel is, on its face, a single large development project, butinternally it is better viewed as 100 or so semi-independent projects allcrammed into one big tent. Within those projects, there is a fair amountof latitude about how changes are managed, and some subsystems are usingthat freedom in the search for more efficient ways of working. In the end,though, all of these sub-projects have to work together and interface withkernel-wide efforts, including the stable-release and CVE-assignmentprocesses. For some time, there has been friction between the directrendering (DRM, or graphics) subsystem and the stable maintainers; thatfriction recently burst into view in a way that shows some of thelimitations of how the kernel community manages patches.