linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] rcu: Add designated reviewers for RCU

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Message-ID: <1404842784.932.22.camel@joe-AO725>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jul 2014 11:06:24 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
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	dvhart@...ux.intel.com, fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
	sbw@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] rcu: Add designated reviewers for RCU

On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 10:09 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 03:42:03PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >  MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 1814075c0e74..92f2bf91eec1 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -7405,6 +7405,9 @@ F:	kernel/rcu/torture.c
> >  
> >  RCUTORTURE TEST FRAMEWORK
> >  M:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > +R:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > +R:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> > +R:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
> >  L:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> >  S:	Supported
> >  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git
> 
> OK,.. so if we're going to do this can we talk about the syntax here.
> 
> I would like to also use this for SCHED and PERF, but since both are
> rather big I would like to be able to subdivide things. Now I could of
> course go create many MAINTAINER sections, but that feels artificial.
> 
> So I would like to be able to write:
> 
> SCHEDULER:
> ...
> R:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> (kernel/sched/rt.c)
> R:   Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...il.com>    (kernel/sched/deadline.c)
> 
> or something like that. And here I've already done concessions in that
> the above is machine readable. Ideally I'd be able to say things like:
> 'for sched and numa related things' add 'rik and mel'.
> 
> Hmm, maybe we can look at the patch subject tag like: sched/numa or
> sched/rt or sched/deadline etc.. instead of the files touched.

I think it's best to use separate sections.

The parsing logic in get_maintainers is already ugly enough.


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