[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] maintainers: claim maintainership of Toeplitz hash

[Medvedkin, Vladimir]

On 06/02/2019 10:38, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 05/02/2019 14:57, Vladimir Medvedkin:
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> +M: Vladimir Medvedkin <vladimir.medvedkin at intel.com>
>> +F: lib/librte_hash/rte_thash.h
> I'm not sure about adding maintainership for one file.
> You are the author of this file, so you should be consulted
> during reviews if you don't catch them by yourself.
> But I prefer seeing maintainers as taking charge and understanding of
> a full library as a block.
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> And unfortunately, it does not work with the script:
> 	devtools/get-maintainer.sh lib/librte_hash/rte_cuckoo_hash.h
> You would appear as maintainer for all hash files.

It could be solved by adding header.

In fact thash is not used by other parts of the hash library (instead it 
could be used by softnic for example).

 From my point of view, hash library consists of two parts, hash table 
itself and a number of hash functions. Hash functions, in turn, can be 
used for many other purposes, not just for a hash table. Maybe we should 
separate hash functions and hash table? And if you think it is a bad 
idea, so be it, 4 maintainers for hash is enough.

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