The kernel is not a monorepo. The kernel is a large(ish) repo. A monorepo would be if you put the kernel AND userspace in the same repo (e.g. all the code for

The kernel is not a monorepo. The kernel is a large(ish) repo. A monorepo would be if you put the kernel AND userspace in the same repo (e.g. all the code for a Yocto distro). To me, when people talk about a monorepo they are talking about putting separate pieces of the architecture in a single repo. It's a great example actually. If it was all in a monorepo and you could release it together then you wouldn't have to worry about the breaking userspace, you could make the changes to both sides at once. In practice because that's not how releasing works in that environment, you can't do that.