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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/8] Move locking primitives into kernel/locking/
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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

> 
> Because for most 'fun' locking discussions we usually end up with at least
> those people anyway :-)
>