linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Frederic and Neeraj to their RCU files

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Message-ID: <b5a72137f2f412e0794987ff1f03adee93ffc92a.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 01 Dec 2021 08:42:11 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     paulmck@...nel.org, quic_neeraju@...cinc.com, frederic@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rcu@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS:  Add Frederic and Neeraj to their RCU files

On Wed, 2021-12-01 at 06:33 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Adding Frederic as an RCU maintainer for kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h given his
> work with offloading and de-offloading callbacks from CPUs.  Also adding
> Neeraj for kernel/rcu/tasks.h given his focused work on RCU Tasks Trace.
> As in I am reasonably certain that each understands the full contents
> of the corresponding file.
[]
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
[]
> @@ -16084,6 +16084,8 @@ F:	tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/
>  
>  READ-COPY UPDATE (RCU)
>  M:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
> +M:	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org> (kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h)
> +M:	Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com> (kernel/rcu/tasks.h)

The words used in parentheses are email address comments and not
file matches so get_maintainer will still show them on any file
that matches the F:/X: patterns specified in the maintainers
section block.

MAINTAINERS-F:  Documentation/RCU/
MAINTAINERS-F:  include/linux/rcu*
MAINTAINERS-F:  kernel/rcu/
MAINTAINERS-X:  Documentation/RCU/torture.rst
MAINTAINERS-X:  include/linux/srcu*.h
MAINTAINERS-X:  kernel/rcu/srcu*.c