Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] rcu: Add designated reviewers for RCU

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jul 08 2014 - 04:09:27 EST


On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 03:42:03PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 1814075c0e74..92f2bf91eec1 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -7405,6 +7405,9 @@ F: kernel/rcu/torture.c
>
> RCUTORTURE TEST FRAMEWORK
> M: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +R: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +R: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +R: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> L: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> S: Supported
> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git

OK,.. so if we're going to do this can we talk about the syntax here.

I would like to also use this for SCHED and PERF, but since both are
rather big I would like to be able to subdivide things. Now I could of
course go create many MAINTAINER sections, but that feels artificial.

So I would like to be able to write:

SCHEDULER:
...
R: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> (kernel/sched/rt.c)
R: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxx> (kernel/sched/deadline.c)

or something like that. And here I've already done concessions in that
the above is machine readable. Ideally I'd be able to say things like:
'for sched and numa related things' add 'rik and mel'.

Hmm, maybe we can look at the patch subject tag like: sched/numa or
sched/rt or sched/deadline etc.. instead of the files touched.

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