From: Paulo Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@gmail.com>
To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Can't seem to find a maintainer for init/* files
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:38:04 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMLg8Qhus2BG76SKCc44rF9_wMyytq53W4h7yd_VjWLGtQzVNg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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I believe I just found the answer for point number 2:
THE REST
M: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/LKML/list/
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
S: Buried alive in reporters
F: *
F: */
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 10:33 AM Paulo Almeida <
paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was reading the KernelJanitor/Todo webpage and found the printk-related
> task that had to be done.
>
> I eventually came across this piece of code that led me to 2 questions
> that I couldn't answer myself
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/master/init/do_mounts.c#L434-L455
>
> 1 - This specific code block has been around for quite some time and many
> additions using the correct printk(KERN_* were made after it was written.
> Does that mean that this code block is an exception and should be left
> as-is for some technical reason? Or, people have somehow forgotten about it
> and I finally found something to do? :)
>
> 2 - I took a look at the https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS list
> and their respective folders/repos and couldn't find out who would be the
> person who I should eventually send the patches to. Is there any
> "fallthrough" maintainer when there isn't one specified? (Please put me
> straight if I'm not seeing things from the right angle)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paulo Almeida
>
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 21:33 Can't seem to find a maintainer for init/* files Paulo Almeida
2019-10-18 21:38 ` Paulo Almeida [this message]
2019-10-18 22:32 ` Greg KH
2019-10-18 23:53 ` Paulo Almeida
2019-10-18 23:25 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-10-21 12:37 ` Paulo Miguel Almeida
2019-10-21 13:45 ` Valdis Klētnieks
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