From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Lee Jones as reviewer for the PWM subsystem Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 17:22:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20200603162204.GO3714@dell> References: <20200602123241.3363904-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com> <20200603123718.6fwsbpnkbjlpq2bz@taurus.defre.kleine-koenig.org> <20200603144224.GC3478467@ulmo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45752 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725995AbgFCQWK (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2020 12:22:10 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x441.google.com (mail-wr1-x441.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::441]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9448EC08C5C0 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2020 09:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wr1-x441.google.com with SMTP id y17so3005944wrn.11 for ; Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200603144224.GC3478467@ulmo> Sender: linux-pwm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org To: Thierry Reding Cc: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 03 Jun 2020, Thierry Reding wrote: > 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 > > > --- > > > 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 > > > R: Uwe Kleine-König > > > +M: Lee Jones > > > > 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. Exactly right. It's a common misconception that M: means 'Maintainer'. It doesn't. M: simply means "Mail-to". It has nothing to do with maintainership levels/hierarchy and everything to do with mail filtering. Nothing to be sad about. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Linaro Services Technical Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog