Re: linux-next: changes in the maintainership of the percpu tree

From: Dennis Zhou
Date: Mon Sep 17 2018 - 10:05:27 EST


Hi Stephen,

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:00:03AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:53:29 -0400 Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Ah, yeah, please switch the tree to Dennis's for-next branch instead of
> > mine.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 7:03 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I noticed commit
> > >
> > > 1194c4154662 ("MAINTAINERS: Make Dennis the percpu tree maintainer")
> > >
> > > Just wondering if this means any changes to the tree/branch I should
> > > fetch or the contacts I should use for the percpu tree in linux-next.
>
> I have switched the percpu tree to be the for-next branch of
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu.git
>
> and added you to the contacts for problems with that tree.
>
> Thanks for adding your subsystem tree as a participant of linux-next. As
> you may know, this is not a judgement of your code. The purpose of
> linux-next is for integration testing and to lower the impact of
> conflicts between subsystems in the next merge window.
>
> You will need to ensure that the patches/commits in your tree/series have
> been:
> * submitted under GPL v2 (or later) and include the Contributor's
> Signed-off-by,
> * posted to the relevant mailing list,
> * reviewed by you (or another maintainer of your subsystem tree),
> * successfully unit tested, and
> * destined for the current or next Linux merge window.
>
> Basically, this should be just what you would send to Linus (or ask him
> to fetch). It is allowed to be rebased if you deem it necessary.
>

Thanks for switching it over and for the rundown!
Dennis