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Date:	Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:30:16 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add zpool

On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 17:19 -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 12:56 -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> >> Add entry for zpool to MAINTAINERS file.
> > []
> >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > []
> >> @@ -11056,6 +11056,13 @@ L:   zd1211-devs@...ts.sourceforge.net (subscribers-only)
> >>  S:   Maintained
> >>  F:   drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/
> >>
> >> +ZPOOL COMPRESSED PAGE STORAGE API
> >> +M:   Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
> >> +L:   linux-mm@...ck.org
> >> +S:   Maintained
> >> +F:   mm/zpool.c
> >> +F:   include/linux/zpool.h
> >
> > If zpool.h is only included from files in mm/,
> > maybe zpool.h should be moved to mm/ ?
> 
> It *could* be included by others, e.g. drivers/block/zram.
> 
> It currently is only used by zswap though, so yeah it could be moved
> to mm/.  Should I move it there, until (if ever) anyone outside of mm/
> wants to use it?

Up to you.

I think include/linux is a bit overstuffed and
whatever can be include local should be.

cheers, Joe

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