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charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <6344A6B0-F7B7-450C-9BDF-AF9056D211F3@vmware.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 09:26:15AM +0000, Jorgen Hansen wrote: > > > > On 21 Jul 2021, at 11:00, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 08:46:15AM +0000, Jorgen Hansen wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On 20 Jul 2021, at 12:39, Greg KH wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 03:29:01AM -0700, Jorgen Hansen wrote: > >>>> Add maintainer info for the VMware VMCI driver. > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Jorgen Hansen > >>>> --- > >>>> MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++++++ > >>>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > >>>> > >>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > >>>> index a61f4f3..7e7c6fa 100644 > >>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS > >>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS > >>>> @@ -19792,6 +19792,14 @@ L: netdev@vger.kernel.org > >>>> S: Supported > >>>> F: drivers/ptp/ptp_vmw.c > >>>> > >>>> +VMWARE VMCI DRIVER > >>>> +M: Jorgen Hansen > >>>> +M: Vishnu Dasa > >>>> +M: "VMware, Inc." > >>> > >>> Please do not use generic aliases as they provide no personal > >>> responsibility. Just stick with real people. > >> > >> That makes sense. However, the pv-drivers list is used for keeping managers > >> and people helping with testing in the loop. So would adding pv-drivers as a > >> second L: entry be OK? > > > > Is it really a list? If not, then that would not make much sense. > > It is - with VMware subscribers only but anyone can post to it. If the intent of the > L: entries is to allow folks to subscribe to relevant information, then it isn’t > appropriate. Then mark it as a private list. > All existing vmw driver maintainer entries have pv-drivers as an M: entry, > so has there been a change in policy regarding this? The approach has > been quite useful for us. It's a hit-or-miss policy, some of us notice it, others do not. nothing official at all, just those of us with more experience know that aliases like this usually atrophy and become useless. There are many such examples of useless ones in the MAINTAINERS file right now :( thanks, greg k-h