Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude DAMON docs from MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC

["Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 06:31:46PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC is a list of misc mm sources and also acts as
> catch-all for the mm Documentation subdirectories. Documentation for
> DAMON is well maintained within its own subsystem and also actively
> updated, so there's no need to Cc all MISC maintainers for them as well.
> Thus add exclusion entries for them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>

> ---
> I'd love to have the time to check the DAMON documentation changes, but
> it's simply not happening, so this will save some mail traffic for me,
> if others agree.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index f53047aa8d3c..cbe565b353d1 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -17269,6 +17269,8 @@ F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-cma
>  F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa
>  F:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/
>  F:	Documentation/mm/
> +X:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/
> +X:	Documentation/mm/damon/

TIL about the X: tag :)

>  F:	drivers/char/mem.c
>  F:	include/linux/cma.h
>  F:	include/linux/dmapool.h
>
> ---
> base-commit: d6d3455d8751854e0d1820f14184682e23ac4475
> change-id: 20261015-maint-mm-core-x-doc-damon-d2da56de5ee8
>

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Cheers, Lorenzo