From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751383AbcHDE2q (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2016 00:28:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49362 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750710AbcHDE2m (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2016 00:28:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 23:28:40 -0500 From: Josh Poimboeuf To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Michael Ellerman , "H. Peter Anvin" , Borislav Petkov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-arch , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Joe Perches Subject: Re: Generic section maintainers Message-ID: <20160804042840.k355wibzjp5yikxb@treble> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0.1 (2016-04-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.38]); Thu, 04 Aug 2016 04:28:42 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > , 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" > +M: Josh Poimboeuf > +M: Arnd Bergmann > +L: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org > +L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > +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