Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Clarify UIO vs UACCESS maintainer

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Sep 13 2018 - 01:50:57 EST


On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:09:28PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> The UIO file mask in MAINTAINERS was incorrectly directing UACCESS
> (include/linux/uio.h) patches to Greg.
>
> Tag Al as the UACCESS maintainer as Ingo and others have explicitly
> required his ack before taking architecture patches that touch
> lib/iov_iter.c.
>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Al, let me know if this is ok. Alternatively we could just fix the file
> mask for UIO and not add a new UACCESS section.

Thanks for doing this!

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>