[PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Mark VMware mailing list entries as private

Wed Nov 10 17:20:00 UTC 2021

On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 01:57:31PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-11-09 at 00:58 +0000, Nadav Amit wrote:
> > > On Nov 8, 2021, at 4:37 PM, Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2021-11-08 at 16:22 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> > > 
> > > So it's an exploder not an actual maintainer and it likely isn't
> > > publically archived with any normal list mechanism.
> > > 
> > > So IMO "private" isn't appropriate.  Neither is "L:"
> > > Perhaps just mark it as what it is as an "exploder".
> > > 
> > > Or maybe these blocks should be similar to:
> > > 
> > > M:	Name of Lead Developer <somebody at vmware.com>
> > > M:	VMware <foo> maintainers <linux-<foo>-maintainers at vmlinux.com>
> 
> Maybe adding entries like
> 
> M:	Named maintainer <whoever at vmware.com>
> R:	VMware <foo> reviewers <linux-<foo>-maintainers at vmware.com>
> 
> would be best/simplest.
> 

Sure, that sounds good to me. I also considered adding "(email alias)"
like Juergen suggested, but I think the R: entry is clear enough.
Please find the updated patch below.

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>From f66faa238facf504cfc66325912ce7af8cbf79ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware)" <srivatsa at csail.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 11:46:57 -0800
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Mark VMware mailing list entries as email
 aliases

VMware mailing lists in the MAINTAINERS file are private lists meant
for VMware-internal review/notification for patches to the respective
subsystems. Anyone can post to these addresses, but there is no public
read access like open mailing lists, which makes them more like email
aliases instead (to reach out to reviewers).

So update all the VMware mailing list references in the MAINTAINERS
file to mark them as such, using "R: email-alias at vmware.com".

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa at csail.mit.edu>
Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr at vmware.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit at vmware.com>
Cc: Vivek Thampi <vithampi at vmware.com>
Cc: Vishal Bhakta <vbhakta at vmware.com>
Cc: Ronak Doshi <doshir at vmware.com>
Cc: pv-drivers at vmware.com
Cc: linux-graphics-maintainer at vmware.com
Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi at vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-input at vger.kernel.org
---
 MAINTAINERS | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 118cf8170d02..4372d79027e9 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6134,8 +6134,8 @@ T:	git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
 F:	drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/
 
 DRM DRIVER FOR VMWARE VIRTUAL GPU
-M:	"VMware Graphics" <linux-graphics-maintainer at vmware.com>
 M:	Zack Rusin <zackr at vmware.com>
+R:	VMware Graphics Reviewers <linux-graphics-maintainer at vmware.com>
 L:	dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
 S:	Supported
 T:	git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
@@ -14189,7 +14189,7 @@ F:	include/uapi/linux/ppdev.h
 PARAVIRT_OPS INTERFACE
 M:	Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com>
 M:	Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa at csail.mit.edu>
-L:	pv-drivers at vmware.com (private)
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
 L:	virtualization at lists.linux-foundation.org
 L:	x86 at kernel.org
 S:	Supported
@@ -20032,7 +20032,7 @@ F:	tools/testing/vsock/
 
 VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER
 M:	Nadav Amit <namit at vmware.com>
-M:	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
 L:	linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
@@ -20040,7 +20040,7 @@ F:	drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
 VMWARE HYPERVISOR INTERFACE
 M:	Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa at csail.mit.edu>
 M:	Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov at vmware.com>
-L:	pv-drivers at vmware.com (private)
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
 L:	virtualization at lists.linux-foundation.org
 L:	x86 at kernel.org
 S:	Supported
@@ -20050,14 +20050,14 @@ F:	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
 
 VMWARE PVRDMA DRIVER
 M:	Adit Ranadive <aditr at vmware.com>
-M:	VMware PV-Drivers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
 L:	linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/infiniband/hw/vmw_pvrdma/
 
 VMware PVSCSI driver
 M:	Vishal Bhakta <vbhakta at vmware.com>
-M:	VMware PV-Drivers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
 L:	linux-scsi at vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c
@@ -20065,7 +20065,7 @@ F:	drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.h
 
 VMWARE VIRTUAL PTP CLOCK DRIVER
 M:	Vivek Thampi <vithampi at vmware.com>
-M:	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
 L:	netdev at vger.kernel.org
 S:	Supported
 F:	drivers/ptp/ptp_vmw.c
@@ -20073,14 +20073,14 @@ F:	drivers/ptp/ptp_vmw.c
 VMWARE VMCI DRIVER
 M:	Jorgen Hansen <jhansen at vmware.com>
 M:	Vishnu Dasa <vdasa at vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
 L:	linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
-L:	pv-drivers at vmware.com (private)
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/
 
 VMWARE VMMOUSE SUBDRIVER
-M:	"VMware Graphics" <linux-graphics-maintainer at vmware.com>
-M:	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
+R:	VMware Graphics Reviewers <linux-graphics-maintainer at vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
 L:	linux-input at vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.c
@@ -20088,7 +20088,7 @@ F:	drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.h
 
 VMWARE VMXNET3 ETHERNET DRIVER
 M:	Ronak Doshi <doshir at vmware.com>
-M:	pv-drivers at vmware.com
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
 L:	netdev at vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/net/vmxnet3/
-- 
2.25.1

