From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D008CC433F5 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2.osuosl.org (smtp2.osuosl.org [140.211.166.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6AADC61A7D for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:15:38 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 mail.kernel.org 6AADC61A7D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=csail.mit.edu Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lists.linux-foundation.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200DD40332; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:15:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from smtp2.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp2.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kGRIt5TzUq-C; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:15:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.linuxfoundation.org (lf-lists.osuosl.org [140.211.9.56]) by smtp2.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F6BB400BD; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lf-lists.osuosl.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B067C002E; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2.osuosl.org (smtp2.osuosl.org [IPv6:2605:bc80:3010::133]) by lists.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0732AC0012 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13434039C for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:15:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from smtp2.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp2.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3CDiE4SO-AWX for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:15:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.8.0 Received: from outgoing-stata.csail.mit.edu (outgoing-stata.csail.mit.edu [128.30.2.210]) by smtp2.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1093400BD for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:15:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [128.177.79.46] (helo=csail.mit.edu) by outgoing-stata.csail.mit.edu with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1mn2zO-00026C-FP; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:15:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 10:18:37 -0800 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" To: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainers for paravirt ops and VMware hypervisor interface Message-ID: <20211116181837.GA24696@csail.mit.edu> References: <163657479269.84207.13658789048079672839.stgit@srivatsa-dev> <163657487268.84207.5604596767569015608.stgit@srivatsa-dev> <20211111153916.GA7966@csail.mit.edu> <20211111194002.GA8739@csail.mit.edu> <20211115223900.GA22267@csail.mit.edu> <70cd970d6c39a5ea5e88cbf4b86031c22c5d10d4.camel@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <70cd970d6c39a5ea5e88cbf4b86031c22c5d10d4.camel@perches.com> Cc: Sasha Levin , jgross@suse.com, anishs@vmware.com, pv-drivers@vmware.com, Greg KH , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, keerthanak@vmware.com, namit@vmware.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, Alexey Makhalov , kuba@kernel.org X-BeenThere: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux virtualization List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Sender: "Virtualization" On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 08:33:40PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2021-11-15 at 14:39 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 12:16:53PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > Maybe we should just remove MAINTAINERS from stable trees to make it > > > obvious. > > > > I don't think we should go quite that far. Instead, perhaps we can > > modify get_maintainer.pl (if needed) such that it prints out a warning > > or reminder to consult the upstream MAINTAINERS file if the script is > > invoked on an older stable kernel. > > I don't see how that's feasible. > Not that I'm pushing for this change, but isn't it straight-forward to distinguish upstream and stable kernel releases based on their versioning schemes? The SUBLEVEL in the Makefile is always 0 for upstream, and positive for stable versions (ignoring ancient kernels like v2.6.32, of course). Since stable kernels are behind mainline by definition, anytime the get_maintainer.pl script is invoked on a kernel with a positive SUBLEVEL value, we can print out the said warning/reminder (if it is considered useful). Regards, Srivatsa _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization