Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry

[Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 04:28:30PM -0700, Boqun Feng wrote:
> We have two pull requests on Rust synchronization primitives with 10+
> patches in a row for recent cycles, so it makes sense to start the
> effort of handling this area as a group.
> 
> Luckily for me, Gary Guo and Alice Ryhl agreed to help as
> co-maintainers, and we also have a talented group of reviewers:
> 
> Lyude Paul started the SpinLockIrq work [1] and did an amazing job at
> improving the design and implementation.
> 
> Daniel Almeida resolved the Lock<T: !Unpin> issue [2] and he did a fair
> amount of reviews in areas related to synchronization primitives
> already.
> 
> Onur Özkan started the ww_mutex work [3] and did an amazing job at
> consolidating various design requirements and decisions.
> 
> Of course, this only reflects my own knowledge, and I believe they did
> way more outside what I'm aware of ;-)
> 
> Note that having this MAINTAINERS entry is meant to bring more people
> to help on the synchronization primitives in Rust, which means for patch
> submissions and design discussion, please still involve the
> corresponding maintainers (e.g. LOCKING and ATOMIC),
> scripts/get_maintainers.pl should have this covered.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20260302232154.861916-1-lyude@redhat.com/ [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250828-lock-t-when-t-is-pinned-v2-0-b067c4b93fd6@collabora.com/ [2]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20260103073554.34855-1-work@onurozkan.dev/ [3]
> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>