From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E98C433FE for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2021 00:23:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF0661159 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2021 00:23:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238160AbhKIAZu (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Nov 2021 19:25:50 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0147.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.147]:44706 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231793AbhKIAZu (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Nov 2021 19:25:50 -0500 Received: from omf19.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9939180F5D2D; Tue, 9 Nov 2021 00:23:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf19.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1A5E920D751; Tue, 9 Nov 2021 00:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <7f193b68b8eb7ee69e6beb5b93c6dba7475359d3.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Mark VMware mailing list entries as private From: Joe Perches To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" , jgross@suse.com, x86@kernel.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com, Nadav Amit , Vivek Thampi , Vishal Bhakta , Ronak Doshi , linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Zack Rusin , sdeep@vmware.com, amakhalov@vmware.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, keerthanak@vmware.com, srivatsab@vmware.com, anishs@vmware.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 16:22:57 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20211108161631.2941f3a7@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> References: <163640336232.62866.489924062999332446.stgit@srivatsa-dev> <163640339370.62866.3435211389009241865.stgit@srivatsa-dev> <5179a7c097e0bb88f95642a394f53c53e64b66b1.camel@perches.com> <20211108161631.2941f3a7@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.40.4-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: tojmtwftm96reeo3xe8hqq3d5x9nkse7 X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout03 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 1A5E920D751 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX19aZonmr5dJiZ7OOfE72tvE17w95gAp7eE= X-HE-Tag: 1636417377-505114 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2021-11-08 at 16:16 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:37:53 -0800 Joe Perches wrote: > > > @@ -6134,8 +6134,8 @@ T: git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc > > > F: drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/ > > > > > > DRM DRIVER FOR VMWARE VIRTUAL GPU > > > -M: "VMware Graphics" > > > M: Zack Rusin > > > +L: linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com (private) > > > > This MAINTAINERS file is for _public_ use, marking something > > non-public isn't useful. > > But Greg has a point. Corporations like to send us code with a list > as the maintainer and MODULE_AUTHOR set to corp's name. We deal with > humans, not legal entities. MAINTAINERS is used not for corporations private use but to find out _who_ to send and cc patches and defect reports. A "private" email address used only for corporate internal review cannot receive patches. > I've been trying to get them to use "M: email" without the name, > but "L: list (private)" also works. > > Either way I feel like we need _some_ way to tell humans from corporate > "please CC this address" entries. This is not the way AFAIKT. > > private makes no sense and likely these L: entries shouldn't exist.