linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Clarify UIO vs UACCESS maintainer

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Message-ID: <20180913055047.GA6976@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 Sep 2018 07:50:47 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Clarify UIO vs UACCESS maintainer

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:09:28PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> The UIO file mask in MAINTAINERS was incorrectly directing UACCESS
> (include/linux/uio.h) patches to Greg.
> 
> Tag Al as the UACCESS maintainer as Ingo and others have explicitly
> required his ack before taking architecture patches that touch
> lib/iov_iter.c.
> 
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Reported-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> ---
> Al, let me know if this is ok. Alternatively we could just fix the file
> mask for UIO and not add a new UACCESS section.

Thanks for doing this!

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>