Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 09:28 -0700, 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.

I knew Andrew started the -mm branch for the memory management, but I
just thought he grew to general Linux Maintainer, so I didn't even think
of Andrew as such.  That title would probably be a demotion for him
now ;)

-- Steve


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