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SubjectRe: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Clarify UIO vs UACCESS maintainer
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:23 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>
> The UIO file mask in MAINTAINERS was incorrectly directing UACCESS
> (include/linux/uio.h) patches to Greg.
>
> Tag Al as the UACCESS maintainer as Ingo and others have explicitly
> required his ack before taking architecture patches that touch
> lib/iov_iter.c.
>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Reported-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> ---
> Al, let me know if this is ok. Alternatively we could just fix the file
> mask for UIO and not add a new UACCESS section.

Al, ack / nak?



>
> MAINTAINERS | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index d870cb57c887..be6c29cfeb55 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -15344,13 +15344,19 @@ F: arch/x86/um/
> F: fs/hostfs/
> F: fs/hppfs/
>
> +USERSPACE ACCESS (UACCESS)
> +M: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> +S: Maintained
> +F: lib/iov_iter.c
> +F: include/linux/uio.h
> +
> USERSPACE I/O (UIO)
> M: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> S: Maintained
> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
> F: Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst
> F: drivers/uio/
> -F: include/linux/uio*.h
> +F: include/linux/uio_driver.h
>
> UTIL-LINUX PACKAGE
> M: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
>

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