From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Doug Covelli <dcovelli@vmware.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an entry in MAINTAINERS for VMware's hypervisor interface
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 04:45:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52271D5E.4060402@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378284821.9739.7404.camel@akataria-dtop.eng.vmware.com>
On 09/04/2013 01:53 AM, Alok Kataria wrote:
> Hey,
>
> This change adds an entry to the maintainers file to explicitly state
> that any changes to vmware.c should be sent to the authors of the file
> as well.
>
> If you are thinking why do this now, off late we have seen quite a few
> changes that touched the "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c" file but were
> not directed to me, someone else made me aware of those changes. It
> could be that my use of different SOB lines "Alok N Kataria" vs "Alok
> Kataria" confuses get_maintainer.pl, but adding this entry in
> MAINTAINERS should solve the problem at hand. For one of the changes
> [1], I did verify that get_maintainer.pl, now expectedly includes me in
> the cc list.
>
> Thanks,
> Alok
>
That is indeed what the maintainers file is for.
> Add an entry in MAINTAINERS file to reflect the authors of a file.
No, it reflects the *maintainer(s)* of a file.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-04 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-04 8:53 [PATCH] Add an entry in MAINTAINERS for VMware's hypervisor interface Alok Kataria
2013-09-04 11:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-09-04 11:52 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, doc: Add an entry in MAINTAINERS for arch/ x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c tip-bot for Alok Kataria
2013-09-04 17:16 ` [PATCH] Add an entry in MAINTAINERS for VMware's hypervisor interface Joe Perches
2013-09-05 4:46 ` Alok Kataria
2013-09-05 5:03 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, doc: Add an entry in MAINTAINERS for arch/ x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c tip-bot for Alok Kataria
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=52271D5E.4060402@zytor.com \
--to=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=akataria@vmware.com \
--cc=dcovelli@vmware.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
--cc=virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org \
--cc=x86@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox