On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:56:22PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Arnd, Josh, > > In my linker table work [0], other than the linker table work and > section ranges stuff, I'm adding: > > o include/linux/sections.h > o include/asm-generic/section-core.h (not in RFC v3 but it is in my > RFC v4 series not yet posted, splitting this up fixes compilation on > powerpc which otherwise creates a header issue nightmare to resolve) > > I extend include/asm-generic/sections.h to then include > <asm-generic/section-core.h>, and furthermore provide the beginning of > a central place to document in a central place all common sections. > > As per checkpatch complaints I'll be adding myself to MAINTAINERS for > the linker table headers, section ranges, but noticed then we don't > have anyone in particularly looking carefully after > include/asm-generic/sections.h other than the default which is Arnd. > Given this work on streamlining the section stuff, I'd like to help so > am considering adding a specific entry on MAINTAINRERS for generic > sections and adding myself to it along with Arnd. Wanted to check if > this is OK. While at it, it occurred to me that you might be > interested in this a swell Josh, given your work with objtool. Would > anyone else like to help with active maintenance / review of these ? > > So is this OK to merge into my series into the patch "sections.h: add > sections header to collect all section info". > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 49b354cb455a..9919277c66ae 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -5190,6 +5190,18 @@ S: Supported > F: drivers/base/power/domain*.c > F: include/linux/pm_domain.h > > +GENERIC SECTIONS > +M: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> > +M: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> > +M: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > +L: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > +L: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > +S: Supported > +F: include/asm-generic/section-core.h > +F: include/asm-generic/sections.h > +F: include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > +F: Documentation/DocBook/sections.tmpl Hi Luis, Thanks to my past work with objtool and kpatch, I know far more than I ever wanted to know about all the kernel's custom ELF sections. So it's fine with me if you want to add me as a maintainer for those files. -- Josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
