Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Convert x86/mm/pat to generic page table apis

[Vishal Moola (Oracle)]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 12:55:10PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 3/2/26 12:27, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> >> I was actually kinda hoping you'd be able to actively go out and find
> >> some reviewers other than the maintainers.
> > I'd appreciate if you could give me more guidance on this. Who am I
> > supposed to go, if not the people from ./get_maintainers? I don't know
> > the x86 folks, I interact more with mm.
> 
> Hi Vishal,
> 
> I personally look at 'git blame' or 'git log' manually and see who's
> been mucking around in the file recently. get_maintainers.pl does _some_
> of that, but I think it mostly looks at others who modified the sames
> lines you did. That can be a bit too restrictive.
> 
> It also couldn't hurt to take a quick look at lore for who's been
> patching the files that you are, or commenting in threads.
> 
> The more of that which you can manage to do this now is less of it that
> I have to do later. Any effort in the area would be much appreciated!

Thanks! I'll look around and cc them on future versions.

> Oh, and if you have a friendly LLM, it doesn't hurt to dump your patches
> in there and ask it. Couldn't hurt.