linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ptrace: use safer wake up on ptrace

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Date:	Tue,  1 Feb 2011 21:31:44 -0800 (PST)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, jan.kratochvil@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: use safer wake up on ptrace_detach()

> Oleg, Roland, you guys are the maintainers, so how do you guys want to
> route the patches which have been acked?  As it's likely that there
> will be quite some number of ptrace patches, it will be better to have
> a git tree.

In practice we are never trusted enough with changes in this area to get
them just pulled from a tree of ours.  They have to go through akpm and
Linus for individual approval before they get in.  So I see no point in me
or Oleg maintaining a git tree that won't get merged directly anyway.


Thanks,
Roland
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