Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

From: Dave McCracken
Date: Mon Jul 24 2006 - 12:39:05 EST


On Monday 24 July 2006 11:28 am, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code? Andrew Morton might
> > be the best person to ask this to. Perhaps if someone would like the
> > job and that person is capable, we can choose an official maintainer for
> > the mm part of the kernel.
>
> We all have specialities and Andrew is the Czar over all of this. I
> always though that the mm tree is there and named that way because Andrew
> *is* in effect the mm maintainer although he seem to keep getting
> distracted by lots of other stuff.

Andrew was named official mm maintainer several years ago, which was the
beginning of the -mm tree. This was before he became overall maintainer. I
may have missed a change, but my impression he's still as close to an mm
maintainer as we have, and a very good one at that.

Dave McCracken
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