Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:42:31 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add ptrace entry to MAINTAINERS |
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* Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> At the LF collab summit we decided to make Roland official ptrace > maintainer not just the defacto one he has been for a couple of years > now. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Hm, what is this "LF collab summit" that makes decisions in terms of who maintains what? Some new buerocracy on top of Linux i have not heard about yet? :)
Because you got your facts wrong: the real ptrace de-facto maintainer is Oleg Nesterov and Andrew Morton, as per kernel/ptrace.c and arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c signoffs since v2.6.27:
2 Tejun Heo 2 WANG Cong 3 Roland McGrath 4 David Howells 5 James Morris 6 Oleg Nesterov 7 Andrew Morton 9 Linus Torvalds 9 Markus Metzger 22 Ingo Molnar
Oleg has been doing most of the heavy lifting in terms of reviewing patches, acking patches and most importantly: keeping bad patches out of the ptrace code - in the past year or so.
Although i would certainly not mind Roland getting more active in this space either :)
But in terms of fairness, if you so conveniently 'decide' who maintains ptrace then Oleg is a must-have maintainer in that space too.
Ingo
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