Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: drop PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section entry

[Ingo Molnar]

* Lukas Bulwahn  wrote:

> The PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section entry seems quite outdated:
> 
> Robert Love is not actively maintaining the file anymore, nor a recorded
> contributor to the files in the PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section for the last
> few years.
> 
> The mailing list kpreempt-t...@lists.sourceforge.net does not exist
> anymore; the website just points to some very old patches for v2.4/v2.5.
> 
> So, let's delete the PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section entry and clean this up:
> 
> - Documentation/preempt-locking.txt is not modified much anyway, and the
>   changes in that file are generally maintained by Jonathan Corbet. So,
>   we do not need to explicitly mention Documentation/preempt-locking.txt
>   in MAINTAINERS.
> 
> - include/linux/preempt.h is maintained by Peter and Ingo, so we simply
>   add that file to the SCHEDULER section entry.
> 
> I got directed to this issue, as I could not subscribe to the outdated
> mailing list address and decided to investigate and then cleaned this up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn 
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 9 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)


Indeed - this all was many years out of date - thanks for the update, I 
merged the patch into tip:sched/urgent.

Thanks,

Ingo

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: drop PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section entry

[Lukas Bulwahn]

The PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section entry seems quite outdated:

Robert Love is not actively maintaining the file anymore, nor a recorded
contributor to the files in the PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section for the last
few years.

The mailing list kpreempt-t...@lists.sourceforge.net does not exist
anymore; the website just points to some very old patches for v2.4/v2.5.

So, let's delete the PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL section entry and clean this up:

- Documentation/preempt-locking.txt is not modified much anyway, and the
  changes in that file are generally maintained by Jonathan Corbet. So,
  we do not need to explicitly mention Documentation/preempt-locking.txt
  in MAINTAINERS.

- include/linux/preempt.h is maintained by Peter and Ingo, so we simply
  add that file to the SCHEDULER section entry.

I got directed to this issue, as I could not subscribe to the outdated
mailing list address and decided to investigate and then cleaned this up.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn 
---
 MAINTAINERS | 9 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 4b7967af08a4..14b991ebf2c1 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -12219,30 +12219,22 @@ F:Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-pps
 F: drivers/pps/
 F: include/linux/pps*.h
 F: include/uapi/linux/pps.h
 
 PPTP DRIVER
 M: Dmitry Kozlov 
 L: net...@vger.kernel.org
 S: Maintained
 F: drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c
 W: http://sourceforge.net/projects/accel-pptp
 
-PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL
-M: Robert Love 
-L: kpreempt-t...@lists.sourceforge.net
-W: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel
-S: Supported
-F: Documentation/preempt-locking.txt
-F: include/linux/preempt.h
-
 PRINTK
 M: Petr Mladek 
 M: Sergey Senozhatsky 
 R: Steven Rostedt 
 S: Maintained
 F: kernel/printk/
 F: include/linux/printk.h
 
 PRISM54 WIRELESS DRIVER
 M: Luis Chamberlain 
 L: linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org
@@ -13449,22 +13441,23 @@ F:drivers/watchdog/sc1200wdt.c
 
 SCHEDULER
 M: Ingo Molnar 
 M: Peter Zijlstra 
 L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched/core
 S: Maintained
 F: kernel/sched/
 F: include/linux/sched.h
 F: include/uapi/linux/sched.h
 F: include/linux/wait.h
+F: include/linux/preempt.h
 
 SCR24X CHIP CARD INTERFACE DRIVER
 M: Lubomir Rintel 
 S: Supported
 F: drivers/char/pcmcia/scr24x_cs.c
 
 SCSI CDROM DRIVER
 M: Jens Axboe 
 L: linux-s...@vger.kernel.org
 W: http://www.kernel.dk
 S: Maintained
-- 
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