Add maintainer for memory management
PATCH 1/1 Add maintainer for memory management
I recently realized that there's no listing of a memory management maintainer in the MAINTAINERS file. And didn't know about [email protected] before Ingo enlightened me. So I've decided to add one. Since Christoph is the first person to come in my mind as the proper maintainer, (and I haven't asked him if he wants this title :) I'll let him either add others to the list, or replace his name altogether.
(I also used the email that he had in slab.c)
Note: If someone else is more likely the person than Christoph, don't be offended that I didn't choose you. It's just that Christoph has responded the most whenever I mention anything about memory. So I chose that as my criteria, than looking at who submits the most memory patches.
-- Steve
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@@ -1884,6 +1884,12 @@ S: [email protected] W: http://megaraid.lsilogic.com S: Maintained +MEMORY MANAGEMENT +P: Christoph Lameter +M: [email protected] +L: [email protected] +S: Maintained + MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD) P: David Woodhouse M: [email protected]
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Quoted 25 lines · On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:01:47 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote:
I recently realized that there's no listing of a memory management maintainer in the
MAINTAINERSfile. And didn't know about [email protected] before Ingo enlightened me. So I've decided to add one. Since Christoph is the first person to come in my mind as the proper maintainer, (and I haven't asked him if he wants this title :) I'll let him either add others to the list, or replace his name altogether.(I also used the email that he had in
slab.c)Note: If someone else is more likely the person than Christoph, don't be offended that I didn't choose you. It's just that Christoph has responded the most whenever I mention anything about memory. So I chose that as my criteria, than looking at who submits the most memory patches.
-- Steve
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MAINTAINERS S: [email protected] · line 1892
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Christoph L. is very NUMA & big-iron focused. He also breaks things (at least builds if not working code) a bit too often IMO.
Andrew, Nick, Peter Zijlstra, Pekka, Manfred, Hugh Dickins are all a better choice IMO. However, if Andrew & Linus want to merge that one...
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Quoted 2 lines · Randy.Dunlap
Christoph L. is very NUMA & big-iron focused. He also breaks things (at least builds if not working code) a bit too often IMO.
Like I said, the criteria was who responded the most. I actually don't keep track of the mm work and someone else is probably better at deciding this. But since it doesn't exist _at_all_ in MAINTAINERS I figured that if I post this, it will soon be added.
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Andrew, Nick, Peter Zijlstra, Pekka, Manfred, Hugh Dickins are all a better choice IMO. However, if Andrew & Linus want to merge that one...
Even if Christoph is not chosen, please do add a MEMORY MANAGEMENT in the MAINTAINERS. I don't want to keep looking back in my email logs to remember what that mm email list was called again.
Also, I would like to see linux-arch mentioned in the MAINTAINERS file since before I new about it, I just emailed every arch maintainer that I could find in the list separately, when making a change that all archs needed.
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Note: If someone else is more likely the person than Christoph, don't be offended that I didn't choose you. It's just that Christoph has responded the most whenever I mention anything about memory. So I chose that as my criteria, than looking at who submits the most memory patches.
You can't just someone give a maintainer job until they agree first. Adding just the mailing list without "maintained" should be ok though.
-Andi
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Quoted 8 lines · Andi Kleen
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Note: If someone else is more likely the person than Christoph, don't be offended that I didn't choose you. It's just that Christoph has responded the most whenever I mention anything about memory. So I chose that as my criteria, than looking at who submits the most memory patches.
You can't just someone give a maintainer job until they agree first. Adding just the mailing list without "maintained" should be ok though.
You're right, and I probably went about it wrong. I had no intention of putting Christoph in the spot, but I figured this would bring attention to MM missing from maintainers list. I was just going to add the linux-mm list without a maintainer, but I thought that alone wouldn't still get a maintainer.
OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code? Andrew Morton might be the best person to ask this to. Perhaps if someone would like the job and that person is capable, we can choose an official maintainer for the mm part of the kernel.
-- Steve
P.S. I once referred to anyone working in MM as a sadomasochist, and that was because to work in the world of memory management, one must really enjoy pain. So I can see if no one actually would want the title of the MM maintainer. Would just the linux-mm be good enough for now?
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Quoted 4 lines · Steven Rostedt
OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code? Andrew Morton might be the best person to ask this to. Perhaps if someone would like the job and that person is capable, we can choose an official maintainer for the mm part of the kernel.
We all have specialities and Andrew is the Czar over all of this. I always though that the mm tree is there and named that way because Andrew *is* in effect the mm maintainer although he seem to keep getting distracted by lots of other stuff.
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Quoted 10 lines · Christoph Lameter
Quoted 4 lines · Steven Rostedt
OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code? Andrew Morton might be the best person to ask this to. Perhaps if someone would like the job and that person is capable, we can choose an official maintainer for the mm part of the kernel.
We all have specialities and Andrew is the Czar over all of this. I always though that the mm tree is there and named that way because Andrew *is* in effect the mm maintainer although he seem to keep getting distracted by lots of other stuff.
Andrew was named official mm maintainer several years ago, which was the beginning of the -mm tree. This was before he became overall maintainer. I may have missed a change, but my impression he's still as close to an mm maintainer as we have, and a very good one at that.
Dave McCracken
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Quoted 11 lines · Christoph Lameter
Quoted 4 lines · Steven Rostedt
OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code? Andrew Morton might be the best person to ask this to. Perhaps if someone would like the job and that person is capable, we can choose an official maintainer for the mm part of the kernel.
We all have specialities and Andrew is the Czar over all of this. I always though that the mm tree is there and named that way because Andrew *is* in effect the mm maintainer although he seem to keep getting distracted by lots of other stuff.
I knew Andrew started the -mm branch for the memory management, but I just thought he grew to general Linux Maintainer, so I didn't even think of Andrew as such. That title would probably be a demotion for him now ;)
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Quoted 1 line · On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:31:03 -0400 Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code?
It is a broad area and different people specialise in different areas.
We all read linux-mm, so mentioning that should suffice, thanks.
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Hi Steven,
The way I understand the maintainership of the memory management code is as follows: there is explicitly no maintainer listed. This code is so sensitive and has interactions with so many other sub-systems that it would not be doable to look at it from all possible angles by only one person.
As it stands its more a group of people headed by Linus, Andrew and Hugh.
Peter
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Quoted 11 lines · Peter Zijlstra
Hi Steven,
The way I understand the maintainership of the memory management code is as follows: there is explicitly no maintainer listed. This code is so sensitive and has interactions with so many other sub-systems that it would not be doable to look at it from all possible angles by only one person.
As it stands its more a group of people headed by Linus, Andrew and Hugh.
Thanks Peter for the explanation.
So, I'll send another patch to just add the linux-mm mailing list, since that should have no qualms about it.
Thanks,
-- Steve
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PATCH 1/1 Add linux-mm mailing list for memory management in MAINTAINERS file
In reply to Peter ZijlstraSince I didn't know about the linux-mm mailing list until I spammed all those that had their names anywhere in the mm directory, I'm sending this patch to add the linux-mm mailing list to the MAINTAINERS file.
Also, since mm is so broad, it doesn't have a single person to maintain it, and thus no maintainer is listed. I also left the status as Maintained, since it obviously is.
-- Steve
MAINTAINERS +4 -0
@@ -1884,6 +1884,10 @@ S: [email protected] W: http://megaraid.lsilogic.com S: Maintained +MEMORY MANAGEMENT +L: [email protected] +S: Maintained + MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD) P: David Woodhouse M: [email protected]
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Re: [PATCH] Add linux-mm mailing list for memory management in MAINTAINERS file
Quoted 8 lines · Steven Rostedt
Since I didn't know about the linux-mm mailing list until I spammed all those that had their names anywhere in the mm directory, I'm sending this patch to add the linux-mm mailing list to the
MAINTAINERSfile.Also, since mm is so broad, it doesn't have a single person to maintain it, and thus no maintainer is listed. I also left the status as Maintained, since it obviously is.
How about having both the linux-mm list and linux-kernel listed?
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Re: [PATCH] Add linux-mm mailing list for memory management in MAINTAINERS file
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Quoted 4 lines · Steven Rostedt
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-0+MEMORY MANAGEMENT +L: [email protected] +S: Maintained +
+W: http://www.linux-mm.org
would also make a good addition here imo.
Dave
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PATCH v2 1/1 Add linux-mm mailing list for memory management in MAINTAINERS file
[Version 2 - with input from Dave Jones and Jesper Juhl]
Since I didn't know about the linux-mm mailing list until I spammed all those that had their names anywhere in the mm directory, I'm sending this patch to add the linux-mm mailing list to the MAINTAINERS file.
Also, since mm is so broad, it doesn't have a single person to maintain it, and thus no maintainer is listed. I also left the status as Maintained, since it obviously is.
-- Steve
MAINTAINERS +6 -0
@@ -1884,6 +1884,12 @@ S: [email protected] W: http://megaraid.lsilogic.com S: Maintained +MEMORY MANAGEMENT +L: [email protected] +L: [email protected] +W: http://www.linux-mm.org +S: Maintained + MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD) P: David Woodhouse M: [email protected]
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