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SubjectRe: [RFC 0/8] Move locking primitives into kernel/locking/
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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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