linux-kernel - Re: Generic section maintainers

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Date:	Thu, 4 Aug 2016 19:06:10 +0200
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: Generic section maintainers

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 11:28:40PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:56:22PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > Arnd, Josh,
> > 
> > In my linker table work [0], other than the linker table work and
> > section ranges stuff, I'm adding:
> > 
> > o include/linux/sections.h
> > o include/asm-generic/section-core.h (not in RFC v3 but it is in my
> > RFC v4 series not yet posted, splitting this up fixes compilation on
> > powerpc which otherwise creates a header issue nightmare to resolve)
> > 
> > I extend include/asm-generic/sections.h to then include
> > <asm-generic/section-core.h>, and furthermore provide the beginning of
> > a central place to document in a central place all common sections.
> > 
> > As per checkpatch complaints I'll be adding myself to MAINTAINERS for
> > the linker table headers, section ranges, but noticed then we don't
> > have anyone in particularly looking carefully after
> > include/asm-generic/sections.h other than the default which is Arnd.
> > Given this work on streamlining the section stuff, I'd like to help so
> > am considering adding a specific entry on MAINTAINRERS for generic
> > sections and adding myself to it along with Arnd. Wanted to check if
> > this is OK. While at it, it occurred to me that you might be
> > interested in this a swell Josh, given your work with objtool. Would
> > anyone else like to help with active maintenance / review of these ?
> > 
> > So is this OK to merge into my series into the patch "sections.h: add
> > sections header to collect all section info".
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 49b354cb455a..9919277c66ae 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -5190,6 +5190,18 @@ S: Supported
> >  F: drivers/base/power/domain*.c
> >  F: include/linux/pm_domain.h
> > 
> > +GENERIC SECTIONS
> > +M: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
> > +M: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
> > +M: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> > +L: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
> > +L: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> > +S: Supported
> > +F: include/asm-generic/section-core.h
> > +F: include/asm-generic/sections.h
> > +F: include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > +F: Documentation/DocBook/sections.tmpl
> 
> Hi Luis,
> 
> Thanks to my past work with objtool and kpatch, I know far more than I
> ever wanted to know about all the kernel's custom ELF sections.  So it's
> fine with me if you want to add me as a maintainer for those files.

OK thanks! I'll fold this into my changes.

  Luis