Re: Can't seem to find a maintainer for init/* files

2019-10-21 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 01:37:33 +1300, Paulo Miguel Almeida said: > In a second approach: > I tried making "git log" to list all the commits this particular file was > involved in > (so I could use --follow) but I ended up with loads of commits that change > other sections > of the file (not the

Re: Can't seem to find a maintainer for init/* files

2019-10-21 Thread Paulo Miguel Almeida
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 07:25:12PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:33:00 +1300, Paulo Almeida said: > > > 1 - This specific code block has been around for quite some time and many > > additions using the correct printk(KERN_* were made after it was written. > > Does that

Re: Can't seem to find a maintainer for init/* files

2019-10-18 Thread Paulo Almeida
> On 19/10/2019, at 11:32 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > Run scripts/get_maintainer.pl on any file and it will tell you where to > send changes to: > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --file init/do_mounts.c > Al Viro mailto:v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>> >

Re: Can't seem to find a maintainer for init/* files

2019-10-18 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:33:00 +1300, Paulo Almeida said: > 1 - This specific code block has been around for quite some time and many > additions using the correct printk(KERN_* were made after it was written. > Does that mean that this code block is an exception and should be left > as-is for some

Re: Can't seem to find a maintainer for init/* files

2019-10-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 10:33:00AM +1300, Paulo Almeida wrote: > Hi all, > > I was reading the KernelJanitor/Todo webpage and found the printk-related > task that had to be done. > > I eventually came across this piece of code that led me to 2 questions that > I couldn't answer myself >

Re: Can't seem to find a maintainer for init/* files

2019-10-18 Thread Paulo Almeida
I believe I just found the answer for point number 2: THE REST M: Linus Torvalds L: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/LKML/list/ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git S: Buried alive in reporters F: * F: */ On Sat, Oct 19,

Can't seem to find a maintainer for init/* files

2019-10-18 Thread Paulo Almeida
Hi all, I was reading the KernelJanitor/Todo webpage and found the printk-related task that had to be done. I eventually came across this piece of code that led me to 2 questions that I couldn't answer myself https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/master/init/do_mounts.c#L434-L455 1 - This