linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add ptrace entry to MAINTAINERS

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Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:42:31 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, roland@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add ptrace entry to MAINTAINERS


* Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:

> At the LF collab summit we decided to make Roland official ptrace
> maintainer not just the defacto one he has been for a couple of years
> now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Hm, what is this "LF collab summit" that makes decisions in terms of 
who maintains what? Some new buerocracy on top of Linux i have not 
heard about yet? :)

Because you got your facts wrong: the real ptrace de-facto 
maintainer is Oleg Nesterov and Andrew Morton, as per 
kernel/ptrace.c and arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c signoffs since v2.6.27:

      2  Tejun Heo 
      2  WANG Cong 
      3  Roland McGrath 
      4  David Howells 
      5  James Morris 
      6  Oleg Nesterov 
      7  Andrew Morton 
      9  Linus Torvalds 
      9  Markus Metzger 
     22  Ingo Molnar 

Oleg has been doing most of the heavy lifting in terms of reviewing 
patches, acking patches and most importantly: keeping bad patches 
out of the ptrace code - in the past year or so.

Although i would certainly not mind Roland getting more active in 
this space either :)

But in terms of fairness, if you so conveniently 'decide' who 
maintains ptrace then Oleg is a must-have maintainer in that space 
too.

	Ingo
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