linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] MAINTAINERS: add TRACE EVENT LIBRARY section

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Message-ID: <20210728104304.24805770@oasis.local.home>
Date:   Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:43:04 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@...il.com>,
        linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] MAINTAINERS: add TRACE EVENT LIBRARY section

On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:57:48 +0200
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:

> The git history shows that the files under ./tools/lib/traceevent/ are
> being developed and maintained by Tzetomir Stoyanov and Steven Rostedt
> and are discussed on linux-trace-devel list.
> 
> Add a suitable section in MAINTAINERS for patches to reach them.
> 
> This was identified with a small script that finds all files only
> belonging to "THE REST" according to the current MAINTAINERS file, and I
> acted upon its output.

Hmm, this is now an obsolete library, as future work is being developed at:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/

We probably want people to start using that instead, and eventually
remove the tools/lib/traceveent/ directory entirely.

-- Steve



> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> ---
> applies cleanly on next-20210726
> 
> RFC patch (from early 2020) here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200201161931.29665-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com/
> 
> also copied Steven's Acked-by from the RFC patch.
> 
> Arnaldo, please pick this quick patch.
> 
>  MAINTAINERS | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 2eb730101689..5a1863b93a9a 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -18828,6 +18828,13 @@ Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-integrity/list/
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd.git
>  F:	drivers/char/tpm/
>  
> +TRACE EVENT LIBRARY
> +M:	Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@...il.com>
> +M:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> +L:	linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	tools/lib/traceevent/
> +
>  TRACING
>  M:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
>  M:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>