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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 3/26/26 20:09, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote: > +Cc Suren as IIRC he mentioned some intent to look into this as well, in the > mmap_lock call. > > On 3/26/26 19:56, Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) wrote: >> We are moving to a far more proactive model of maintainership within mm and >> thus put a great deal of emphasis on sub-maintainers being active within >> the community both in terms of code contributions and review. >> >> The MGLRU has not had much activity since being added to the kernel and the >> current maintainers who kindly stepped up have unfortunately not been able >> to contribute a great deal to it for over a year, nor engage all that >> heavily in review. >> >> As a result, and within no negative connotations implied whatsoever, it >> seems appropriate to downgrade the current maintainers to reviewers. > > Seems fair to me. > >> At this time nobody is quite exercising the maintainer role in this area of >> the kernel, but there is encouraging activity from a number of people who >> are trusted elsewhere in the kernel, and who have contributed relevant work >> or review. >> >> Therefore add further reviewers, and at this stage - to reflect the reality >> on the ground - we will not have any sub-maintainers listed at all. >> >> Each of the files listed are shared with other sections in MAINTAINERS, so >> this doesn't reduce sub-maintainer coverage. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) > > Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) > Let's represent the actual situation indeed. People can always become submaintainers again when things changes. For now it's effectively a bit under-maintained. Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) > (I assume the newly added people will ack their additions) Agreed. -- Cheers, David