Re: [PATCH] add ptrace entry to MAINTAINERS

Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14T00:43:16Z

* Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> At the LF collab summit we decided to make Roland official ptrace
> maintainer not just the defacto one he has been for a couple of years
> now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Hm, what is this "LF collab summit" that makes decisions in terms of
who maintains what? Some new buerocracy on top of Linux i have not
heard about yet? :)

Because you got your facts wrong: the real ptrace de-facto
maintainer is Oleg Nesterov and Andrew Morton, as per
kernel/ptrace.c and arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c signoffs since v2.6.27:

2 Tejun Heo
2 WANG Cong
3 Roland McGrath
4 David Howells
5 James Morris
6 Oleg Nesterov
7 Andrew Morton
9 Linus Torvalds
9 Markus Metzger
22 Ingo Molnar

Oleg has been doing most of the heavy lifting in terms of reviewing
patches, acking patches and most importantly: keeping bad patches
out of the ptrace code - in the past year or so.

Although i would certainly not mind Roland getting more active in
this space either :)

But in terms of fairness, if you so conveniently 'decide' who
maintains ptrace then Oleg is a must-have maintainer in that space
too.

Ingo