Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add namespace entry

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 17:41 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Namespace maintainership has never been formalized which has led to confusion
> when people need to determine where to send patches and who should take a look
> at them. Especially, since we have a dedicated list
> containers.lists.linuxfoundation.org already for a long time. In preparation of
> this patch I added the containers.lists.linuxfoundation.org mailing list to be
> archived on lore.
> 
> This will not just make it easier to catch and review patches specific to
> namespaces and containers but also for changes not specifically touching
> namespaces but which nevertheless will have impact on namespaces and
> containers.
> 
> Add an entry for Eric (who agreed to this) and me and add a first batch of
> files that are relevant. Currently, only a small set of files are added and
> only such namespaces that haven't gotten a separate maintainers entry (e.g.
> time namespaces). I expect this to grow more entries and/or regular expressions
> over time. For now these entries here are sufficient. I intend to route this
> patch upstream soon.
> 
> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index f0068bceeb61..272211cdc327 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -11892,6 +11892,26 @@ S:	Supported
>  W:	https://www.cspi.com/ethernet-products/support/downloads/
>  F:	drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/
>  
> +NAMESPACES AND CONTAINERS
> +M:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:     Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +L:     containers.lists.linuxfoundation.org
> +S:     Supported
> +T:     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux.git/
> +T:     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git/
> +F:     ipc/namespace.c
> +F:     kernel/nsproxy.c
> +F:     kernel/pid_namespace.c
> +F:     kernel/user_namespace.c
> +F:     kernel/utsname.c
> +F:     include/linux/nsproxy.h
> +F:     include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
> +F:     include/linux/ns_common.h
> +F:     include/linux/nsproxy.h
> +F:     include/linux/pid_namespace.h
> +F:     include/linux/user_namespace.h
> +F:     include/linux/utsname.h

Please sort the filename order alphabetically.

F:	include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
F:	include/linux/ns_common.h
F:	include/linux/nsproxy.h
F:	include/linux/nsproxy.h
F:	include/linux/pid_namespace.h
F:	include/linux/user_namespace.h
F:	include/linux/utsname.h
F:	ipc/namespace.c
F:	kernel/nsproxy.c
F:	kernel/pid_namespace.c
F:	kernel/user_namespace.c
F:	kernel/utsname.c