Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:39:47 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: > > That's fine with me, but _who_ do I send VM patches to if > I can't send them to you ?
The VM stuff right now seems to be Andrea, Dave or you yourself (right now I just wish you would split up your patches like Andrea does, that way I can cherry-pick).
> There is no maintainer for mm/* or kernel/*, it's just you.
As to kernel/ there are actually maintainers for some sub-areas, the most noticeable being Ingo on the scheduler. The rest of kernel/ hasn't ever been much of a problem, really.
The VM is a big issue, of course. And that one isn't likely to go away anytime soon as a point of contention. And it's not easy to modularize, apart from the obvious pieces (ie "filemap.c" vs the rest).
You may not believe me when I say so, but I personally _really_ hope your rmap patches will work out. I may not have believed in your patches in a 2.4.x kind of timeframe, but for 2.6.x I'm more optimistic. As to how to actually modularize it better to make points of contention smaller, I don't know how.
At the same time, while I can understand your personal pain, I don't think most of the problems have been with the VM (maintenance-wise, that is. Most of the _technical_ problems really have been with the VM, it's just the most complex piece).
Linus
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