2018-01-27 07:12:07

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: [PATCH] x86: Mark hpa as a "Designated Reviewer" for the time being

Due to some unfortunate events, I have not been directly involved in
the x86 kernel patch flow for a while now. I have also not been able
to ramp back up by now like I had hoped to, and after reviewing what I
will need to work on both internally at Intel and elsewhere in the near
term, it is clear that I am not going to be able to ramp back up until
late 2018 at the very earliest.

It is not acceptable to not recognize that this load is currently
taken by Ingo and Thomas without my direct participation, so I mark
myself as R: (designated reviewer) rather than M: (maintainer) until
further notice. This is in fact recognizing the de facto situation
for the past few years.

I have obviously no intention of going away, and I will do everything
within my power to improve Linux on x86 and x86 for Linux. This,
however, puts credit where it is due and reflects a change of focus.

This patch also removes stale entries for portions of the x86
architecture which have not been maintained separately from arch/x86
for a long time. If there is a reason to re-introduce them then that
can happen later.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
MAINTAINERS | 12 +-----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e3581413420c..94976349ff61 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6609,16 +6609,6 @@ L: [email protected]
S: Maintained
F: drivers/i2c/i2c-stub.c

-i386 BOOT CODE
-M: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
-S: Maintained
-F: arch/x86/boot/
-
-i386 SETUP CODE / CPU ERRATA WORKAROUNDS
-M: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
-T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup.git
-S: Maintained
-
IA64 (Itanium) PLATFORM
M: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
M: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
@@ -14858,7 +14848,7 @@ F: net/x25/
X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)
M: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
M: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-M: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
+R: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
M: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/core
--
2.9.5



Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Mark hpa as a "Designated Reviewer" for the time being

Commit-ID: 8a95b74d50825067fb6c8af7f9db03e711b1cb9d
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/8a95b74d50825067fb6c8af7f9db03e711b1cb9d
Author: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:59:34 -0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:11:00 +0100

x86: Mark hpa as a "Designated Reviewer" for the time being

Due to some unfortunate events, I have not been directly involved in
the x86 kernel patch flow for a while now. I have also not been able
to ramp back up by now like I had hoped to, and after reviewing what I
will need to work on both internally at Intel and elsewhere in the near
term, it is clear that I am not going to be able to ramp back up until
late 2018 at the very earliest.

It is not acceptable to not recognize that this load is currently
taken by Ingo and Thomas without my direct participation, so I mark
myself as R: (designated reviewer) rather than M: (maintainer) until
further notice. This is in fact recognizing the de facto situation
for the past few years.

I have obviously no intention of going away, and I will do everything
within my power to improve Linux on x86 and x86 for Linux. This,
however, puts credit where it is due and reflects a change of focus.

This patch also removes stale entries for portions of the x86
architecture which have not been maintained separately from arch/x86
for a long time. If there is a reason to re-introduce them then that
can happen later.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Schlobohm <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
MAINTAINERS | 12 +-----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e358141..9497634 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6609,16 +6609,6 @@ L: [email protected]
S: Maintained
F: drivers/i2c/i2c-stub.c

-i386 BOOT CODE
-M: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
-S: Maintained
-F: arch/x86/boot/
-
-i386 SETUP CODE / CPU ERRATA WORKAROUNDS
-M: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
-T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup.git
-S: Maintained
-
IA64 (Itanium) PLATFORM
M: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
M: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
@@ -14858,7 +14848,7 @@ F: net/x25/
X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)
M: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
M: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-M: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
+R: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
M: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/core

2018-01-27 15:10:41

by Thomas Gleixner

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Mark hpa as a "Designated Reviewer" for the time being

Peter!

On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Due to some unfortunate events, I have not been directly involved in
> the x86 kernel patch flow for a while now. I have also not been able
> to ramp back up by now like I had hoped to, and after reviewing what I
> will need to work on both internally at Intel and elsewhere in the near
> term, it is clear that I am not going to be able to ramp back up until
> late 2018 at the very earliest.

Thanks for all the work you've done. I wish you the best for the work you
have on your plate in the next time and hope to see you around on LKML, IRC
and at the next conference.

Thanks,

Thomas

2018-01-28 07:57:55

by Ingo Molnar

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Mark hpa as a "Designated Reviewer" for the time being


* Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Peter!
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Due to some unfortunate events, I have not been directly involved in
> > the x86 kernel patch flow for a while now. I have also not been able
> > to ramp back up by now like I had hoped to, and after reviewing what I
> > will need to work on both internally at Intel and elsewhere in the near
> > term, it is clear that I am not going to be able to ramp back up until
> > late 2018 at the very earliest.
>
> Thanks for all the work you've done. I wish you the best for the work you
> have on your plate in the next time and hope to see you around on LKML, IRC
> and at the next conference.

I'd like to wish Peter the best as well!

Thanks,

Ingo