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Date:   Thu, 1 Feb 2018 20:39:31 +0100
From:   Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: add the Memory Consistency Model
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 01:44:01PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 01:04:26PM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > Integrate (and then remove) tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS into the
> > main MAINTAINERS file. This way get_maintainer.pl can give a "right
> > answer" for tools/memory-model/.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS                    | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> >  tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS | 15 ---------------
> >  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS
> 
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> 
> Makes a lot more sense having this in the top-level MAINTAINERS file.
> It might also make sense to add:
> 
>   F:	Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> 
> as a separate patch now that we have a hit-list of memory model people
> who can help poor old Jon (who currently gets blamed by get_maintainer.pl).

This does make sense to me: I'll prepare/send such a patch tomorrow.

  Andrea


> 
> Will