Re: [PATCH iproute2] Add MAINTAINERS file

[Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>]

Wed, May 10, 2023 at 11:00:40PM CEST, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:
>Record the maintainers of subsections of iproute2.
>The subtree maintainers are based off of most recent current
>patches and maintainer of kernel portion of that subsystem.
>
>Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
>Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
>---
> MAINTAINERS | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 MAINTAINERS
>
>diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>new file mode 100644
>index 000000000000..fa720f686ba8
>--- /dev/null
>+++ b/MAINTAINERS
>@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
>+Iproute2 Maintainers
>+====================
>+
>+The file provides a set of names that are are able to help
>+review patches and answer questions. This is in addition to
>+the netdev@vger.kernel.org mailing list used for all iproute2
>+and kernel networking.
>+
>+Descriptions of section entries:
>+
>+	M: Maintainer's Full Name <address@domain>
>+	T: Git tree location.
>+	F: Files and directories with wildcard patterns.
>+	   A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files.
>+	   A wildcard includes all files but not subdirectories.
>+	   One pattern per line. Multiple F: lines acceptable.
>+
>+Main Branch
>+M: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
>+T: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git
>+L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
>+
>+Next Tree
>+M: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
>+T: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git
>+L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
>+
>+Ethernet Bridging - bridge
>+M: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>
>+M: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
>+L: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
>+F: bridge/*
>+
>+Data Center Bridging - dcb
>+M: Petr Machata <me@pmachata.org>
>+F: dcb/*
>+
>+Device Link - devlink

It's actually just "Devlink". I don't think we have "device link"
anywhere.


>+M: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
>+F: devlink/*
>+
>+Transparent Inter-Process Communication - Tipc
>+M: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
>+F: tipc/*
>+
>+Virtual Datapath Accelration - Vdpa
>+M: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
>+M: Eli Cohen <elic@nvidia.com>
>+F: vdpa/*
>-- 

What about "rdma"? I think Leon is a fit for that area.

Overall, good idea to have this!

Thanks!