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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 16:43:11 +0000
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Claim atomic*_t maintainership
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:06:03PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> Since Will and me have rewritten and heavily extended the atomic*_t
> infrastructure over the past few years, claim ownership of it.
> 
> We would also like to add Boqun as he helped out with PowerPC and has shown
> good understanding of these bits.
> 
> We would still defer to architecture maintainers on implementation details, but
> we'd take care of the interface and cross architecture semantics of the
> primitives.
> 
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index c44795306342..4c0584cb113c 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -2259,6 +2259,15 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/atmel,maxtouch.txt
>  F:	drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c
>  F:	include/linux/platform_data/atmel_mxt_ts.h
>  
> +ATOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE
> +M:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> +M:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> +R:	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> +L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	arch/*/include/asm/atomic*.h
> +F:	include/*/atomic*.h

It might also be worth us having a shared tree for staging patches,
which we could feed into -tip like RCU does. I doubt we're going to be
handling huge volumes of code, but having a common development tree
surely makes sense.

Also, Boqun, we need to drag you into Europe to get your key signed :)

Will