On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:06:03PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Since Will and me have rewritten and heavily extended the atomic*_t > infrastructure over the past few years, claim ownership of it. > > We would also like to add Boqun as he helped out with PowerPC and has shown > good understanding of these bits. > > We would still defer to architecture maintainers on implementation details, > but > we'd take care of the interface and cross architecture semantics of the > primitives. > > Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> > Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.f...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> > --- > MAINTAINERS | 9 +++++++++ > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index c44795306342..4c0584cb113c 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -2259,6 +2259,15 @@ F: > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/atmel,maxtouch.txt > F: drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c > F: include/linux/platform_data/atmel_mxt_ts.h > > +ATOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE > +M: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> > +M: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> > +R: Boqun Feng <boqun.f...@gmail.com> > +L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > +S: Maintained > +F: arch/*/include/asm/atomic*.h > +F: include/*/atomic*.h
It might also be worth us having a shared tree for staging patches, which we could feed into -tip like RCU does. I doubt we're going to be handling huge volumes of code, but having a common development tree surely makes sense. Also, Boqun, we need to drag you into Europe to get your key signed :) Will
