On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 04:19:48PM +0100, Johannes Thoma wrote:

Hi Kernel hackers,

I have a proposal for an improvement of the CMA allocator (just about 5 lines of code to make it more robust). I would like to send it to the linux-mm mailing list (linux-mm@kvack.org according to MAINTAINERS), but it seems to be inactive. What is the best way to reach the maintainer of mm/cma.c ?

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --file mm/cma.c Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> (commit_signer:3/3=100%) Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (commit_signer:1/3=33%,authored:1/3=33%,added_lines:4/8=50%,removed_lines:3/4=75%) Shiraz Hashim <shashim@codeaurora.org> (commit_signer:1/3=33%,authored:1/3=33%,added_lines:3/8=38%) Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> (commit_signer:1/3=33%,authored:1/3=33%,added_lines:1/8=12%,removed_lines:1/4=25%) linux-mm@kvack.org (open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT) linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)

On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 16:19 +0100, Johannes Thoma wrote:

Hi Kernel hackers,

I have a proposal for an improvement of the CMA allocator (just about 5  lines of code to make it more robust). I would like to send it to the linux-mm mailing list (linux-mm@kvack.org according to MAINTAINERS), but it seems to be inactive.

That list is not inactive. You may have encountered a list archive that is no longer receiving updates, but the mailing list itself is active. However, it is so active that CCing the maintainers is still a good idea :) -- All Rights Reversed.