From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932210AbWGXQk6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:40:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932212AbWGXQk6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:40:58 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.41]:28043 "EHLO ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932210AbWGXQk5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:40:57 -0400 From: Dave McCracken To: LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:40:43 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <1153713707.4002.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1153744263.4002.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607241140.45187.dcm@mccr.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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