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Bhat" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainers for paravirt ops and VMware hypervisor interface Message-ID: References: <163657479269.84207.13658789048079672839.stgit@srivatsa-dev> <163657487268.84207.5604596767569015608.stgit@srivatsa-dev> <20211111153916.GA7966@csail.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20211111153916.GA7966@csail.mit.edu> Cc: jgross@suse.com, anishs@vmware.com, pv-drivers@vmware.com, 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 , joe@perches.com, 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 Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:39:16AM -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:50:39AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:08:16PM -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > > > From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) > > > > > > Deep has decided to transfer maintainership of the VMware hypervisor > > > interface to Srivatsa, and the joint-maintainership of paravirt ops in > > > the Linux kernel to Srivatsa and Alexey. Update the MAINTAINERS file > > > to reflect this change. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) > > > Acked-by: Alexey Makhalov > > > Acked-by: Deep Shah > > > Acked-by: Juergen Gross > > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > > > > Why are MAINTAINERS updates needed for stable? That's not normal :( > > So that people posting bug-fixes / backports to these subsystems for > older kernels (stable and LTS releases) will CC the new subsystem > maintainers. That's not how stable releases work at all. > That's why I added CC stable tag only to the first two > patches which add/replace maintainers and not the third patch which is > just a cleanup. Patches for stable kernels need to go into Linus's tree first, and if you have the MAINTAINERS file updated properly there, then you will be properly cc:ed. We do not look at the MAINTAINERS file for the older kernel when sending patches out, it's totally ignored as that was the snapshot at a point in time, which is usually no longer the true state. So this would have no affect at all, sorry. That's why I asked if you all really realized what you were doing here :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization