Re: [PATCH RFC 9/9] MAINTAINERS: add an entry for the LZ4 compression library

[Eric Biggers]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 01:27:39PM +0200, Michal Wilczynski wrote:
> lib/lz4/ has never had one: get_maintainer.pl returns only the LKML
> fallback for every file in it, including include/linux/lz4.h, which eight
> subsystems build against.
> 
> This matters more now than it did. With the previous patches lib/lz4 is
> vendored upstream sources, and someone has to bump them to new upstream
> releases and decide what the kernel-side glue may do. I am willing to do
> that, so add myself as its maintainer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Wilczynski <m.wilczynski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index cc3cae2e378b34aeb705cef654c720ca9f2ba223..989e1b5fab21432dd7042d1e60c4bbad85beb925 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -15606,6 +15606,12 @@ S:	Supported
>  F:	drivers/net/pcs/pcs-lynx.c
>  F:	include/linux/pcs-lynx.h
>  
> +LZ4 COMPRESSION LIBRARY
> +M:	Michal Wilczynski <m.wilczynski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	include/linux/lz4.h
> +F:	lib/lz4/
> +

Should this entry cover lib/decompress_unlz4.c and
include/linux/decompress/unlz4.h as well?

- Eric