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

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Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:34:20 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Clarify UIO vs UACCESS maintainer

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:23 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> 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.

Al, ack / nak?



>
>  MAINTAINERS |    8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index d870cb57c887..be6c29cfeb55 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -15344,13 +15344,19 @@ F:    arch/x86/um/
>  F:     fs/hostfs/
>  F:     fs/hppfs/
>
> +USERSPACE ACCESS (UACCESS)
> +M:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> +S:     Maintained
> +F:     lib/iov_iter.c
> +F:     include/linux/uio.h
> +
>  USERSPACE I/O (UIO)
>  M:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>  S:     Maintained
>  T:     git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
>  F:     Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst
>  F:     drivers/uio/
> -F:     include/linux/uio*.h
> +F:     include/linux/uio_driver.h
>
>  UTIL-LINUX PACKAGE
>  M:     Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
>