Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update MGLRU entry to reflect current status

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 3/26/26 20:09, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> +Cc Suren as IIRC he mentioned some intent to look into this as well, in the
> mmap_lock call.
> 
> On 3/26/26 19:56, Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) wrote:
>> We are moving to a far more proactive model of maintainership within mm and
>> thus put a great deal of emphasis on sub-maintainers being active within
>> the community both in terms of code contributions and review.
>>
>> The MGLRU has not had much activity since being added to the kernel and the
>> current maintainers who kindly stepped up have unfortunately not been able
>> to contribute a great deal to it for over a year, nor engage all that
>> heavily in review.
>>
>> As a result, and within no negative connotations implied whatsoever, it
>> seems appropriate to downgrade the current maintainers to reviewers.
> 
> Seems fair to me.
> 
>> At this time nobody is quite exercising the maintainer role in this area of
>> the kernel, but there is encouraging activity from a number of people who
>> are trusted elsewhere in the kernel, and who have contributed relevant work
>> or review.
>>
>> Therefore add further reviewers, and at this stage - to reflect the reality
>> on the ground - we will not have any sub-maintainers listed at all.
>>
>> Each of the files listed are shared with other sections in MAINTAINERS, so
>> this doesn't reduce sub-maintainer coverage.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Let's represent the actual situation indeed. People can always become
submaintainers again when things changes. For now it's effectively a bit
under-maintained.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

> (I assume the newly added people will ack their additions)

Agreed.

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Cheers,

David