Re: [PATCH bpf] bpf, docs: Better scale maintenance of BPF subsystem

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 10:59:02AM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 6/27/22 10:38 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 1:30 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> > > > vger continues to cause trouble and it doesn't sound that the fix is coming.
> > > > So having everyone directly cc-ed is the only option we have.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, Exhibit A - vger is lagging right now...
> > > I guess the "real fix" is on the vger, trying to massage MAINTAINERS
> > > now is not a great use of time..
> > 
> > The real fix is to move away from vger and adjust get_maintainer
> > script to be smarter when the mailer can do its job.
> > MAINTAINERS file should list everyone who performs code reviews
> > and maintains the code.
> 
> Agree to all above. I think to address Jakub's concern, we could adapt
> this regex similarly as we have in XDP and move this as a remainder to
> a misc/noise section, like below:
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index dbf978014e8a..b5a1960c8339 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -3657,8 +3657,6 @@ F:        scripts/pahole-version.sh
>  F:     tools/bpf/
>  F:     tools/lib/bpf/
>  F:     tools/testing/selftests/bpf/
> -N:     bpf
> -K:     bpf
> 
>  BPF JIT for ARM
>  M:     Shubham Bansal <illusionist.neo@xxxxxxxxx>
> @@ -3850,6 +3848,11 @@ L:       bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  S:     Maintained
>  F:     tools/testing/selftests/bpf/
> 
> +BPF [MISC]
> +L:     bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +S:     Odd Fixes
> +K:     (?:\b|_)bpf(?:\b|_)
> +

Good idea!

>  BROADCOM B44 10/100 ETHERNET DRIVER
>  M:     Michael Chan <michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  L:     netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> If there are no objections, I can fold this in..

sgtm



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Samsung SoC]     [Linux Rockchip SoC]     [Linux Actions SoC]     [Linux for Synopsys ARC Processors]     [Linux NFS]     [Linux NILFS]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]


  Powered by Linux