Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: drop PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section entry

[Ingo Molnar]

* Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section entry seems quite outdated:
> 
> Robert Love is not actively maintaining the file anymore, nor a recorded
> contributor to the files in the PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section for the last
> few years.
> 
> The mailing list kpreempt-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx does not exist
> anymore; the website just points to some very old patches for v2.4/v2.5.
> 
> So, let's delete the PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section entry and clean this up:
> 
> - Documentation/preempt-locking.txt is not modified much anyway, and the
>   changes in that file are generally maintained by Jonathan Corbet. So,
>   we do not need to explicitly mention Documentation/preempt-locking.txt
>   in MAINTAINERS.
> 
> - include/linux/preempt.h is maintained by Peter and Ingo, so we simply
>   add that file to the SCHEDULER section entry.
> 
> I got directed to this issue, as I could not subscribe to the outdated
> mailing list address and decided to investigate and then cleaned this up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 9 +--------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)


Indeed - this all was many years out of date - thanks for the update, I 
merged the patch into tip:sched/urgent.

Thanks,

	Ingo