Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Claim atomic*_t maintainership

[Boqun Feng]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:43:11PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:06:03PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > Since Will and me have rewritten and heavily extended the atomic*_t
> > infrastructure over the past few years, claim ownership of it.
> > 
> > We would also like to add Boqun as he helped out with PowerPC and has shown
> > good understanding of these bits.
> > 
> > We would still defer to architecture maintainers on implementation details, but
> > we'd take care of the interface and cross architecture semantics of the
> > primitives.
> > 
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 9 +++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index c44795306342..4c0584cb113c 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -2259,6 +2259,15 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/atmel,maxtouch.txt
> >  F:	drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c
> >  F:	include/linux/platform_data/atmel_mxt_ts.h
> >  
> > +ATOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE
> > +M:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > +M:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> > +R:	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> > +L:	linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > +S:	Maintained
> > +F:	arch/*/include/asm/atomic*.h
> > +F:	include/*/atomic*.h
> 
> It might also be worth us having a shared tree for staging patches,
> which we could feed into -tip like RCU does. I doubt we're going to be
> handling huge volumes of code, but having a common development tree
> surely makes sense.
> 
> Also, Boqun, we need to drag you into Europe to get your key signed :)
> 

Thank you, Will ;-)

I will first try to reach out developers in China and ask for their
help on signatures.

Regards,
Boqun

> Will

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