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Subject: Re: [patch net-next 16/19] lib: Introduce priority array area
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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:51:10 -0800
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On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 16:12 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
> 
> This introduces a infrastructure for management of linear priority
> areas. Priority order in an array matters, however order of items inside
> a priority group does not matter.
> 
> As an initial implementation, L-sort algorithm is used. It is quite
> trivial. More advanced algorithm called P-sort will be introduced as a
> follow-up. The infrastructure is prepared for other algos.
> 
> Alongside this, a testing module is introduced as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS            |   8 +
>  include/linux/parman.h |  76 ++++++++++
[]
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
[]
> @@ -9375,6 +9375,14 @@ F:	drivers/video/fbdev/sti*
>  F:	drivers/video/console/sti*
>  F:	drivers/video/logo/logo_parisc*
>  
> +PARMAN

This is not particularly descriptive.
Perhaps expand the section header a little like:

PARMAN - Linear priority array areas manager

> diff --git a/include/linux/parman.h b/include/linux/parman.h
[]
> @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
> +/*
> + * include/linux/parman.h - Manager for linear priority array areas
[]
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
[]
> @@ -550,4 +550,7 @@ config STACKDEPOT
>  config SBITMAP
>  	bool
>  
> +config PARMAN
> +	tristate "parman"

help section?  Why should this be selected?