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Message-ID: <be4be68a-caff-4657-9a49-67b3eaefe478@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 18:32:34 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v20 14/14] mm: page_frag: add an entry in
 MAINTAINERS for page_frag

Hi,

On 10/9/24 06:01, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> On 2024/10/9 8:43, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 19:20:48 +0800 Yunsheng Lin wrote:
>>> +M:	Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>
>>
>> The bar for maintaining core code is very high, if you'd
>> like to be a maintainer please start small.
> 
> I did start small with the page_pool case, as mentioned in
> [1] of a similar comment, and the page_frag is a small
> subsystem/library as mentioned in commit log.
> 
> I think I still might need a second opinion here.
> 
> 1. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/dea82ac3-65fc-c941-685f-9d4655aa4a52@huawei.com/

Please note that the 'small' part here does not refer strictly to code 
size. Any core networking code has the bar significantly higher than 
i.e. NIC drivers - even if the latter could count order of magnitude 
more LoC.
AFAICS there is an unwritten convention that people are called to 
maintain core code, as opposed to people appointing themself to maintain 
driver code.

Cheers,

Paolo