Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?

Andi Kleen wrote:
A lot of that code (although, of course, not all) could be written in C,
though. I'm thinking of taking a stab at rewriting it that way.

That would require a new compiler, right? I don't think that would
make users very happy.

Besides the code is not exactly that maintenance intensive and only
changes rarely so I don't need a pressing need to rewrite it

No, it would not need a new compiler. All it requires is gcc plus a
reasonably recent binutils which you need anyway.

-hpa
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