Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:38:22 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/8] Move locking primitives into kernel/locking/ | From | Michel Lespinasse <> |
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On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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 <mingo@redhat.com> > M: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > M: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> > M: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > M: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > 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.
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