On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > During Kernel Summit Dave mentioned that there wasn't a clear maintainer for > locking bits. > > To remedy this Ingo suggested gathering all the various locking primitives and > lockdep into a single place: kernel/locking/.
I quite like the idea. > I would further like to propose a MAINTAINERS entry like: > > LOCKING > M: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> > M: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> > M: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> > M: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> > M: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git > locking/core > S: Maintained > F: kernel/locking/ > > Because for most 'fun' locking discussions we usually end up with at least > those people anyway :-) Agree :) While I don't think I carry as much weight as these people, I was going to ask to be included here for the fun discussions - and then I realized that having a separate directory for these files makes it super easy to set up a mail filter anyway :) -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
