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

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Date:   Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:50:09 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [resend PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Clarify UIO vs UACCESS maintainer

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>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
---
I got a bounce last time I tried to send this, hopefully the situation
has improved now.

Al, let me know if you want this entry. Alternatively we can just do the
UIO file mask fixup by itself.

 MAINTAINERS |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index b22e7fdfd2ea..7abd97b96725 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15366,13 +15366,19 @@ 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>