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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/8] Move locking primitives into kernel/locking/
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op 05-11-13 14:18, Steven Rostedt schreef:
> On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:10:44 +0100
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> During Kernel Summit Dave mentioned that there wasn't a clear maintainer for
>> locking bits.
>>
>> To remedy this Ingo suggested gathering all the various locking primitives and
>> lockdep into a single place: kernel/locking/.
>>
>> I would further like to propose a MAINTAINERS entry like:
>>
>> LOCKING
>> M:      Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
>> M:      Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>> M:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
>> M:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> M:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>> T:      git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git locking/core
>> S:      Maintained
>> F:      kernel/locking/
> I wonder if it should be called kernel/locks, as that's less to type,
> smaller path names, and tastes good on bagels.
>
> -- Steve
>
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