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Message-ID: <20090414004231.GA17288@elte.hu>
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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