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Message-ID: <676fbd97-8de5-49e1-b378-18f9c918a51b@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 21:31:05 +0200
From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
 "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
 Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add mm folks as reviewers to rust alloc

Hi Lorenzo,

On 7/8/25 8:37 PM, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> The alloc implementation is a thin wrapper over slab/vmalloc, so to help

It's much more than that, as far as MM is concerned this is true (no need to
change this in the commit message).

> out on the mm side of things and to be cc'd on changes, add some mm people
> as reviewers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>

Thanks a lot for sending this patch, it is very welcome! I will apply it once I
have an ACK from Vlastimil, Liam and Uladzislau.

> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 71599ab6bd56..54dd937160ac 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -21751,6 +21751,10 @@ K:	\b(?i:rust)\b
>   
>   RUST [ALLOC]
>   M:	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
> +R:	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> +R:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> +R:	Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>
> +R:	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
>   L:	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
>   S:	Maintained
>   T:	git https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux.git alloc-next