On Wednesday, 6 May 2026 02:20:17 CEST Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Ah, I see. I was asking because I don't recall us getting much batadv
> patches CCed to netdev. Maybe it's simply because there wasn't that
> many of them to begin with.
> 
> If the rate keeps up let's add an X: to MAINTAINERS to avoid
> netdev@ being CCed. IDK if that's what X is supposed to be used for 
> but we use it for wireless and bluetooth already. The PRs still
> flow thru networking tree, but there's no need for netdev to be CCed
> on 99% of the patch submissions.
> 

Thanks for the hint, queued up a patch:

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f net/batman-adv/*
Marek Lindner <marek.lindner@mailbox.org> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
Antonio Quartulli <antonio@mandelbit.com> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org (moderated list:BATMAN ADVANCED)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)


$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f Documentation/networking/batman-adv.rst
Marek Lindner <marek.lindner@mailbox.org> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
Antonio Quartulli <antonio@mandelbit.com> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> (maintainer:DOCUMENTATION)
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> (reviewer:DOCUMENTATION)
b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org (moderated list:BATMAN ADVANCED)
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f include/uapi/linux/batadv_packet.h include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h
Marek Lindner <marek.lindner@mailbox.org> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
Antonio Quartulli <antonio@mandelbit.com> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> (maintainer:BATMAN ADVANCED)
b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org (moderated list:BATMAN ADVANCED)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)


@Yuan: Thanks for updating your internal rules. But the main problem (more 
patches send to netdev) was caused by my oversight. Btw. thanks for all your 
contributions.

Regards,
	Sven