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

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Message-ID: <20211201171020.GG641268@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1>
Date:   Wed, 1 Dec 2021 09:10:20 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     quic_neeraju@...cinc.com, frederic@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rcu@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS:  Add Frederic and Neeraj to their RCU files

On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 08:42:11AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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

Understood, and the files in parentheses are only intended for human
consumption.  I am personally in favor on Frederic and Neeraj seeing
RCU-related patches.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul