From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 39CB4179A3 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786579729; cv=none; b=ZTrAqqEGq+dAXP8j+0qNb5DZq4cxUjYtHLUDJL74l8TLvtt0g3ypvDj2Hruy1t3odGGPE3UUuVP+iRQvk4F5f+O3yAjmIGnp9DV3O6DDrGqrXi8sjdIWB+bbhUlYQBnKFYtmaDJbqeEnxgebjb6KuQRNhIlWKPjNFLdVioRbW/Q= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786579729; c=relaxed/simple; bh=F6kiSv3XJR13kk15EnU9P0lbMEkI9HXvHmSwuCM/QuI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=KKdJYW/+qL/iECuvdtvx1rEhdi8arvrNFt3J7l9+gcPgHCwwXVcpdQhaDaHLodUJNS1FZ2Ht0s/sZuTlUW3KZrOkamMtSdjKPUcqveC3yKTtG0H2+5IXA3SKnBQqUdUNWgU/GRfiqN2iO8VH9/snY3nDLuiXMsL4oK7CMpW68XI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=mvH6aU/H; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="mvH6aU/H" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 46C311F000E9; Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:08:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1786579727; bh=QY5IlRziZNTfZ6Z+fu1Ef4fAj7qOAG9xqtNlFCx4xzk=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=mvH6aU/HppVAC2zVlIBrNmXlBC4rNDmbU9XDOAPMoFDCWFY+MIME2MoWw9OLUizBF FQ4kB49p/fVRI+HLlqDnVBDnAj2RiztEuH3rIE7sTis4qLT4A7Yp3BDLe1U0hiEvf9 svcIUNzPBmKzzdw1cxSV83DWvW+WgkpYI7VWjW1E2vySv9BPRuu5tQLrxwoNTfl2UE HErh/itsJ74SA++qlbKfjnxJW5xeHYfdYCQPBEU81NvAJNbNBDnT6N4s2VHxM+t3IL 2vxtYz63XauupoZHYgzAtHaHLXaEyaN6r7lwl5U2ZnT8znqjF/GvuXIWj5zMEDeoIL aBUazDhHsEDPQ== From: SJ Park To: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" Cc: SJ Park , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , David Hildenbrand , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Jann Horn , Pedro Falcato , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add drivers/char/mem.c to mm misc, memory mapping sections Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:08:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20260813000843.128434-1-sj@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: <20260812-add-drivers-mem-to-mm-maintainers-v1-1-6218b861f4c8@kernel.org> References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:43:31 +0100 "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" wrote: > This file is a 'special' driver that implements /dev/zero and /dev/mem > among other things. > > As such it makes sense for mm to be cc'd on mails and to have some say in > how things are changed there, so add it to the mm misc section. > > Uniquely, it provides the 'old way' of obtaining an anonymous mapping - > MAP_PRIVATE of /dev/zero - so is directly tied to memory mapping, therefore > also add it to the memory mapping section. Makes sense. > > scripts/get_maintainer.pl copes perfectly fine with files in multiple > sections so everything should work correctly. > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Acked-by: SJ Park Thanks, SJ [...]