From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v3.1 0/7] data integrity: Stabilize pages during
	writeback for various fses
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:55:35 -0700
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
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	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
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	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 04:27:10PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Whay about just sending the VFS patches to Al

Al was in the To: list of all 7 patches.

> instead of talking about it on a totally irrelevant call that doesn't include
> the important stakeholders?  FS-specific patches can go through the fs
> maintainers independently.

The maintainers (ext4/ext2/vfat) were also in the To: list.

Trouble is, MAINTAINERS says this:

MEMORY MANAGEMENT
L:      linux-mm@kvack.org
W:      http://www.linux-mm.org
S:      Maintained
F:      include/linux/mm.h
F:      mm/

There's a list, but no specific contact person.  That's why I had to start
asking around about who actually pushes mm changes to Linus.

As for Al Viro, he's still listed as the VFS maintainer; isn't he resting?
I guess he did nominate you for the holding off of morons (like me). :)

--D