linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

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Date:	Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:40:43 -0500
From:	Dave McCracken <dcm@...r.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

On Monday 24 July 2006 11:28 am, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code?  Andrew Morton might
> > be the best person to ask this to.  Perhaps if someone would like the
> > job and that person is capable, we can choose an official maintainer for
> > the mm part of the kernel.
>
> We all have specialities and Andrew is the Czar over all of this. I
> always though that the mm tree is there and named that way because Andrew
> *is* in effect the mm maintainer although he seem to keep getting
> distracted by lots of other stuff.

Andrew was named official mm maintainer several years ago, which was the 
beginning of the -mm tree.  This was before he became overall maintainer.  I 
may have missed a change, but my impression he's still as close to an mm 
maintainer as we have, and a very good one at that.

Dave McCracken
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