On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 02:37:18PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 02:32:41PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > Lee has kindly offered his help in sharing the patch review workload for
> > the PWM subsystem. If this works out well between Lee, Uwe and myself it
> > may be a good idea to maintain the subsystem as a group.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index e64e5db31497..b8889bed5d1e 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -13736,6 +13736,7 @@ F:	drivers/media/rc/pwm-ir-tx.c
> >  PWM SUBSYSTEM
> >  M:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
> >  R:	Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> > +M:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> 
> I'm bit surprised that Lee got M: which I have a R:. The commit log
> talks about reviewer not maintainer.
> 
> While I'm not sure that there is a practical difference it makes me a
> bit sad.

That was not the intention. According to the notes at the top of the
MAINTAINERS file, recipients on M: lines will be added in the To:
header, while R: lines will be added in the Cc: header. That's really
the only difference.

In practical terms this may be helpful for filtering where email where
you are on the To: line can be prioritized over those where you are on
the Cc: line.

Thierry