From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] MAINTAINERS: MM updates
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 12:33:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <auiDADcPkGKMf2Sf@gremlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4adcc07a-2df9-4d5b-8b0f-6734e336182e@kernel.org>
On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 01:32:10PM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 11/2/26 12:17, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 07:47:46AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> >> On 11/1/26 21:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>> After that I need to have it whack away at selftests, shudder.
> >>
> >> I am not convinced yet that we want that for all tests, which is why I left it
> >> out. There is too much churn that's not really relevant for a component
> >> maintainer POV.
> >>
> >> I was rather thinking that maybe we'd want a MM selftest component (likely for
> >> the later MISC maintainer) that picks up the usual selftest churn. Component
> >> maintainers really only have to be CCed on functional things.
> >
> > Hmm, but some of these tests are establishing important invariants. I wouldn't
> > want somebody fundamentally changing what the guard region tests do for
> > instance.
> >
> > On the one hand the churn (especially now) is annoying, on the other hand I can
> > just ignore mail I don't care about.
>
> Well, as a listed maintainer you'd be expected to pick up these things.
>
> So I'd much rather have a dedicated selftest maintainer that takes care of these
> things.
>
> OFC we can still add these tests cases to the relevant sections; we just have to
> figure out who will pick up most simple changes.
Yup, files can live in >1 sections at once, which should solve it from both
sides.
--
Cheers, Lorenzo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-02 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-30 21:34 [PATCH 0/7] MAINTAINERS: MM updates David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-30 21:34 ` [PATCH 1/7] MAINTAINERS: mention for-next branch in MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MEMORY MAP David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-31 0:40 ` Muchun Song
2026-10-31 8:38 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-01 17:11 ` Harry Yoo
2026-10-30 21:34 ` [PATCH 2/7] MAINTAINERS: TMPFS (SHMEM FILESYSTEM) updates David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-31 8:42 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-01 17:14 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-02 2:01 ` Baolin Wang
2026-10-30 21:34 ` [PATCH 3/7] MAINTAINERS: add Zi Yan as co-maintainer for MEMORY MANAGEMENT - THP David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-30 22:00 ` Zi Yan
2026-10-30 23:33 ` Barry Song
2026-10-31 0:39 ` Muchun Song
2026-10-31 4:01 ` Lance Yang
2026-10-31 5:43 ` Dev Jain
2026-10-31 8:36 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-01 17:16 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-02 2:04 ` Baolin Wang
2026-10-30 21:34 ` [PATCH 4/7] MAINTAINERS: sort entries in MM sections David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-31 9:08 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-10-31 9:25 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-01 17:19 ` Harry Yoo
2026-10-30 21:34 ` [PATCH 5/7] MAINTAINERS: add missing files to MM component sections David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-31 0:42 ` Muchun Song
2026-10-31 9:23 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-10-31 9:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-30 21:34 ` [PATCH 6/7] MAINTAINERS: rename and move MEMORY HOT(UN)PLUG David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-31 0:43 ` Muchun Song
2026-10-31 9:24 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-10-30 21:34 ` [PATCH 7/7] MAINTAINERS: route more MM changes through mm/core.git David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-31 10:51 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-10-30 22:02 ` [PATCH 0/7] MAINTAINERS: MM updates Zi Yan
2026-10-30 23:48 ` SJ Park
2026-10-31 7:49 ` Qi Zheng
2026-10-31 8:30 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-11-01 10:37 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-01 13:33 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-01 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2026-11-01 20:55 ` SJ Park
2026-11-02 6:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-02 7:11 ` Andrew Morton
2026-11-02 8:07 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-02 11:17 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 12:32 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-02 12:33 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) [this message]
2026-11-01 20:47 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-11-02 11:20 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
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