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Subject: Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:

> >  git log --pretty=short mm/slob.c
> 
> A dozen trivial cleanups do not make you maintainer. Otherwise we'd
> all be sending our patches to Adrian rather than Linus.

Of course you are the maintainer but you only authored a single patch 
which was the original submission in all the time that SLOB was in the 
tree. I keep having to clean up the allocator that has--according to 
Pekka--more memory requirements than SLUB. There is no point in keeping it 
around anymore it seems.