Re: [PATCH 0/7] MAINTAINERS: MM updates

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 11/2/26 12:17, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 07:47:46AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>> On 11/1/26 21:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> After that I need to have it whack away at selftests, shudder.
>>
>> I am not convinced yet that we want that for all tests, which is why I left it
>> out. There is too much churn that's not really relevant for a component
>> maintainer POV.
>>
>> I was rather thinking that maybe we'd want a MM selftest component (likely for
>> the later MISC maintainer) that picks up the usual selftest churn. Component
>> maintainers really only have to be CCed on functional things.
> 
> Hmm, but some of these tests are establishing important invariants. I wouldn't
> want somebody fundamentally changing what the guard region tests do for
> instance.
> 
> On the one hand the churn (especially now) is annoying, on the other hand I can
> just ignore mail I don't care about.

Well, as a listed maintainer you'd be expected to pick up these things.

So I'd much rather have a dedicated selftest maintainer that takes care of these
things.

OFC we can still add these tests cases to the relevant sections; we just have to
figure out who will pick up most simple changes.

-- 
Cheers,

David