Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754051AbZDNAnQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:43:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752908AbZDNAm6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:42:58 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:44201 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752851AbZDNAm6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:42:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:42:31 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, roland@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: [PATCH] add ptrace entry to MAINTAINERS Message-ID: <20090414004231.GA17288@elte.hu> References: <20090413152010.GA16682@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090413152010.GA16682@lst.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1481 Lines: 45 * Christoph Hellwig wrote: > At the LF collab summit we decided to make Roland official ptrace > maintainer not just the defacto one he has been for a couple of years > now. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Hm, what is this "LF collab summit" that makes decisions in terms of who maintains what? Some new buerocracy on top of Linux i have not heard about yet? :) Because you got your facts wrong: the real ptrace de-facto maintainer is Oleg Nesterov and Andrew Morton, as per kernel/ptrace.c and arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c signoffs since v2.6.27: 2 Tejun Heo 2 WANG Cong 3 Roland McGrath 4 David Howells 5 James Morris 6 Oleg Nesterov 7 Andrew Morton 9 Linus Torvalds 9 Markus Metzger 22 Ingo Molnar Oleg has been doing most of the heavy lifting in terms of reviewing patches, acking patches and most importantly: keeping bad patches out of the ptrace code - in the past year or so. Although i would certainly not mind Roland getting more active in this space either :) But in terms of fairness, if you so conveniently 'decide' who maintains ptrace then Oleg is a must-have maintainer in that space too. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/