[PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[Steven Rostedt]

I recently realized that there's no listing of a memory management
maintainer in the MAINTAINERS file. And didn't know about
linux-mm@kvack.org before Ingo enlightened me.  So I've decided to add
one.  Since Christoph is the first person to come in my mind as the
proper maintainer, (and I haven't asked him if he wants this title :)
I'll let him either add others to the list, or replace his name
altogether.

(I also used the email that he had in slab.c)

Note: If someone else is more likely the person than Christoph, don't be
offended that I didn't choose you.  It's just that Christoph has
responded the most whenever I mention anything about memory. So I chose
that as my criteria, than looking at who submits the most memory
patches.

-- Steve

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc2/MAINTAINERS
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc2.orig/MAINTAINERS	2006-07-23 23:32:13.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc2/MAINTAINERS	2006-07-23 23:34:10.000000000 -0400
@@ -1884,6 +1884,12 @@ S:     linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
 W:     http://megaraid.lsilogic.com
 S:     Maintained
 
+MEMORY MANAGEMENT
+P:	Christoph Lameter
+M:	christoph@lameter.com
+L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
+S:	Maintained
+
 MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD)
 P:	David Woodhouse
 M:	dwmw2@infradead.org

Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:01:47 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote:

> I recently realized that there's no listing of a memory management
> maintainer in the MAINTAINERS file. And didn't know about
> linux-mm@kvack.org before Ingo enlightened me.  So I've decided to add
> one.  Since Christoph is the first person to come in my mind as the
> proper maintainer, (and I haven't asked him if he wants this title :)
> I'll let him either add others to the list, or replace his name
> altogether.
> 
> (I also used the email that he had in slab.c)
> 
> Note: If someone else is more likely the person than Christoph, don't be
> offended that I didn't choose you.  It's just that Christoph has
> responded the most whenever I mention anything about memory. So I chose
> that as my criteria, than looking at who submits the most memory
> patches.
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.18-rc2/MAINTAINERS
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.18-rc2.orig/MAINTAINERS	2006-07-23 23:32:13.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.18-rc2/MAINTAINERS	2006-07-23 23:34:10.000000000 -0400
> @@ -1884,6 +1884,12 @@ S:     linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
>  W:     http://megaraid.lsilogic.com
>  S:     Maintained
>  
> +MEMORY MANAGEMENT
> +P:	Christoph Lameter
> +M:	christoph@lameter.com
> +L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
> +S:	Maintained
> +

Christoph L. is very NUMA & big-iron focused.  He also breaks
things (at least builds if not working code) a bit too often IMO.

Andrew, Nick, Peter Zijlstra, Pekka, Manfred, Hugh Dickins
are all a better choice IMO.  However, if Andrew & Linus want
to merge that one...

---
~Randy

Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 00:11 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> Christoph L. is very NUMA & big-iron focused.  He also breaks
> things (at least builds if not working code) a bit too often IMO.

Like I said, the criteria was who responded the most. I actually don't
keep track of the mm work and someone else is probably better at
deciding this. But since it doesn't exist _at_all_ in MAINTAINERS I
figured that if I post this, it will soon be added.

> 
> Andrew, Nick, Peter Zijlstra, Pekka, Manfred, Hugh Dickins
> are all a better choice IMO.  However, if Andrew & Linus want
> to merge that one...

Even if Christoph is not chosen, please do add a MEMORY MANAGEMENT in
the MAINTAINERS.  I don't want to keep looking back in my email logs to
remember what that mm email list was called again.

Also, I would like to see linux-arch mentioned in the MAINTAINERS file
since before I new about it, I just emailed every arch maintainer that I
could find in the list separately, when making a change that all archs
needed.

-- Steve

Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[Andi Kleen]

> Note: If someone else is more likely the person than Christoph, don't be
> offended that I didn't choose you.  It's just that Christoph has
> responded the most whenever I mention anything about memory. So I chose
> that as my criteria, than looking at who submits the most memory
> patches.
	
You can't just someone give a maintainer job until they agree first.
Adding just the mailing list without "maintained" should be ok though.


-Andi

Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:13 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Note: If someone else is more likely the person than Christoph, don't be
> > offended that I didn't choose you.  It's just that Christoph has
> > responded the most whenever I mention anything about memory. So I chose
> > that as my criteria, than looking at who submits the most memory
> > patches.
> 	
> You can't just someone give a maintainer job until they agree first.
> Adding just the mailing list without "maintained" should be ok though.

You're right, and I probably went about it wrong.  I had no intention of
putting Christoph in the spot, but I figured this would bring attention
to MM missing from maintainers list.  I was just going to add the
linux-mm list without a maintainer, but I thought that alone wouldn't
still get a maintainer.

OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code?  Andrew Morton might
be the best person to ask this to.  Perhaps if someone would like the
job and that person is capable, we can choose an official maintainer for
the mm part of the kernel.

-- Steve

P.S. I once referred to anyone working in MM as a sadomasochist, and
that was because to work in the world of memory management, one must
really enjoy pain. So I can see if no one actually would want the title
of the MM maintainer. Would just the linux-mm be good enough for now?

Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[Peter Zijlstra]

Hi Steven,

The way I understand the maintainership of the memory management code is
as follows: there is explicitly no maintainer listed. This code is so
sensitive and has interactions with so many other sub-systems that it
would not be doable to look at it from all possible angles by only one
person.

As it stands its more a group of people headed by Linus, Andrew and
Hugh.

Peter

Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 16:03 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> 
> The way I understand the maintainership of the memory management code is
> as follows: there is explicitly no maintainer listed. This code is so
> sensitive and has interactions with so many other sub-systems that it
> would not be doable to look at it from all possible angles by only one
> person.
> 
> As it stands its more a group of people headed by Linus, Andrew and
> Hugh.
> 

Thanks Peter for the explanation.

So, I'll send another patch to just add the linux-mm mailing list, since
that should have no qualms about it.

Thanks,

-- Steve 

[PATCH] Add linux-mm mailing list for memory management in MAINTAINERS file

[Steven Rostedt]

Since I didn't know about the linux-mm mailing list until I spammed all
those that had their names anywhere in the mm directory, I'm sending
this patch to add the linux-mm mailing list to the MAINTAINERS file.

Also, since mm is so broad, it doesn't have a single person to maintain
it, and thus no maintainer is listed.  I also left the status as
Maintained, since it obviously is.

-- Steve

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc2/MAINTAINERS
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc2.orig/MAINTAINERS	2006-07-23 23:32:13.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc2/MAINTAINERS	2006-07-24 10:29:56.000000000 -0400
@@ -1884,6 +1884,10 @@ S:     linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
 W:     http://megaraid.lsilogic.com
 S:     Maintained
 
+MEMORY MANAGEMENT
+L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
+S:	Maintained
+
 MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD)
 P:	David Woodhouse
 M:	dwmw2@infradead.org

Re: [PATCH] Add linux-mm mailing list for memory management in MAINTAINERS file

[Jesper Juhl]

On 24/07/06, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> Since I didn't know about the linux-mm mailing list until I spammed all
> those that had their names anywhere in the mm directory, I'm sending
> this patch to add the linux-mm mailing list to the MAINTAINERS file.
>
> Also, since mm is so broad, it doesn't have a single person to maintain
> it, and thus no maintainer is listed.  I also left the status as
> Maintained, since it obviously is.
>

How about having both the linux-mm list and linux-kernel listed?

> +MEMORY MANAGEMENT
> +L:     linux-mm@kvack.org
+L:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> +S:     Maintained
> +


-- 
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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Re: [PATCH] Add linux-mm mailing list for memory management in MAINTAINERS file

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:32:38AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

 > +MEMORY MANAGEMENT
 > +L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
 > +S:	Maintained
 > +

+W: http://www.linux-mm.org
would also make a good addition here imo.

		Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

[PATCH V2] Add linux-mm mailing list for memory management in MAINTAINERS file

[Steven Rostedt]

[Version 2 - with input from Dave Jones and Jesper Juhl]

Since I didn't know about the linux-mm mailing list until I spammed all
those that had their names anywhere in the mm directory, I'm sending
this patch to add the linux-mm mailing list to the MAINTAINERS file.

Also, since mm is so broad, it doesn't have a single person to maintain
it, and thus no maintainer is listed.  I also left the status as
Maintained, since it obviously is.

-- Steve

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc2/MAINTAINERS
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc2.orig/MAINTAINERS	2006-07-23 23:32:13.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc2/MAINTAINERS	2006-07-24 12:23:53.000000000 -0400
@@ -1884,6 +1884,12 @@ S:     linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
 W:     http://megaraid.lsilogic.com
 S:     Maintained
 
+MEMORY MANAGEMENT
+L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
+L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
+W:	http://www.linux-mm.org
+S:	Maintained
+
 MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD)
 P:	David Woodhouse
 M:	dwmw2@infradead.org

Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code?  Andrew Morton might
> be the best person to ask this to.  Perhaps if someone would like the
> job and that person is capable, we can choose an official maintainer for
> the mm part of the kernel.

We all have specialities and Andrew is the Czar over all of this. I 
always though that the mm tree is there and named that way because Andrew 
*is* in effect the mm maintainer although he seem to keep getting 
distracted by lots of other stuff.

Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[Dave McCracken]

On Monday 24 July 2006 11:28 am, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code?  Andrew Morton might
> > be the best person to ask this to.  Perhaps if someone would like the
> > job and that person is capable, we can choose an official maintainer for
> > the mm part of the kernel.
>
> We all have specialities and Andrew is the Czar over all of this. I
> always though that the mm tree is there and named that way because Andrew
> *is* in effect the mm maintainer although he seem to keep getting
> distracted by lots of other stuff.

Andrew was named official mm maintainer several years ago, which was the 
beginning of the -mm tree.  This was before he became overall maintainer.  I 
may have missed a change, but my impression he's still as close to an mm 
maintainer as we have, and a very good one at that.

Dave McCracken

Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 09:28 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code?  Andrew Morton might
> > be the best person to ask this to.  Perhaps if someone would like the
> > job and that person is capable, we can choose an official maintainer for
> > the mm part of the kernel.
> 
> We all have specialities and Andrew is the Czar over all of this. I 
> always though that the mm tree is there and named that way because Andrew 
> *is* in effect the mm maintainer although he seem to keep getting 
> distracted by lots of other stuff.

I knew Andrew started the -mm branch for the memory management, but I
just thought he grew to general Linux Maintainer, so I didn't even think
of Andrew as such.  That title would probably be a demotion for him
now ;)

-- Steve