Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add Amir as xfs maintainer for 5.10.y

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 11:28:37AM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 10:27 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 08:43:21AM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > > This is an attempt to direct the bots and human that are testing
> > > LTS 5.10.y towards the maintainer of xfs in the 5.10.y tree.
> > >
> > > This is not an upstream MAINTAINERS entry and 5.15.y and 5.4.y will
> > > have their own LTS xfs maintainer entries.
> > >
> > > Update Darrick's email address from upstream and add Amir as xfs
> > > maintaier for the 5.10.y tree.
> > >
> > > Suggested-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/Yrx6%2F0UmYyuBPjEr@magnolia/
> > > Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Greg,
> > >
> > > We decided to try and fork MAINTAINERS.
> > >
> > > I don't know if this was attempted before and I don't know if you
> > > think that is a good idea, but the rationale is that at least some
> > > of the scripts that report bugs on LTS, will be running get_maintainer.pl
> > > on the LTS branch they are testing.
> > >
> > > The scripts that run get_maintainer.pl on master can be tought to
> > > do the right thing for LTS reporting.
> > > This seems easier and more practical then teaching the scripts to
> > > parse LTS specific entries in upstream MAINTAINERS.
> > >
> > > You have another patch like that coming fro Leah for 5.15.y.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Amir.
> > >
> > >  MAINTAINERS | 3 ++-
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index 7c118b507912..4d10e79030a9 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -19246,7 +19246,8 @@ F:    arch/x86/xen/*swiotlb*
> > >  F:   drivers/xen/*swiotlb*
> > >
> > >  XFS FILESYSTEM
> > > -M:   Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> > > +M:   Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
> > > +M:   Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> > >  M:   linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
> > >  L:   linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
> > >  S:   Supported
> >
> > I'll apply this, but really, no one will ever notice it.
> >
> > All new patches, and work, goes on on Linus's tree and you have to
> > submit matches for it to be considered for older stable kernels as you
> > know.  So there's not much for old MAINTAINERS entries here.
> >
> > But hey, I could be wrong let's try it and see what happens :)
> 
> Just to be clear, this meant not for CCing stable xfs maintainers on
> fix patches that developers send upstream.
> 
> This is only so bots running on LTS and distro kernels find xfs bugs
> are advised to CC the xfs stable maintainers.

Let's see if they even look at that file.

> P.S. You have an xfs backport series for both 5.10 and 5.15
> in your inbox...

I have lots of stable patches to catch up on, you are in good company:
	$ mdfrm -c ~/mail/stable/
	186 messages in /home/gregkh/mail/stable/

I'll try to get through them later today

greg k-h