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@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@vmware.com M: VMware <foo> maintainers <linux-<foo>-maintainers@vmlinux.com>
Maybe adding entries like
M: Named maintainer whoever@vmware.com R: VMware <foo> reviewers <linux-<foo>-maintainers@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: "Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware)" srivatsa@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@vmware.com".
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) srivatsa@csail.mit.edu Cc: Zack Rusin zackr@vmware.com Cc: Nadav Amit namit@vmware.com Cc: Vivek Thampi vithampi@vmware.com Cc: Vishal Bhakta vbhakta@vmware.com Cc: Ronak Doshi doshir@vmware.com Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com Cc: linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-input@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@vmware.com M: Zack Rusin zackr@vmware.com +R: VMware Graphics Reviewers linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com L: dri-devel@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@suse.com M: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) srivatsa@csail.mit.edu -L: pv-drivers@vmware.com (private) +R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers pv-drivers@vmware.com L: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org L: x86@kernel.org S: Supported @@ -20032,7 +20032,7 @@ F: tools/testing/vsock/
VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER M: Nadav Amit namit@vmware.com -M: "VMware, Inc." pv-drivers@vmware.com +R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers pv-drivers@vmware.com L: linux-kernel@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@csail.mit.edu M: Alexey Makhalov amakhalov@vmware.com -L: pv-drivers@vmware.com (private) +R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers pv-drivers@vmware.com L: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org L: x86@kernel.org S: Supported @@ -20050,14 +20050,14 @@ F: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
VMWARE PVRDMA DRIVER M: Adit Ranadive aditr@vmware.com -M: VMware PV-Drivers pv-drivers@vmware.com +R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers pv-drivers@vmware.com L: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: drivers/infiniband/hw/vmw_pvrdma/
VMware PVSCSI driver M: Vishal Bhakta vbhakta@vmware.com -M: VMware PV-Drivers pv-drivers@vmware.com +R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers pv-drivers@vmware.com L: linux-scsi@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@vmware.com -M: "VMware, Inc." pv-drivers@vmware.com +R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers pv-drivers@vmware.com L: netdev@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@vmware.com M: Vishnu Dasa vdasa@vmware.com +R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers pv-drivers@vmware.com L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -L: pv-drivers@vmware.com (private) S: Maintained F: drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/
VMWARE VMMOUSE SUBDRIVER -M: "VMware Graphics" linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com -M: "VMware, Inc." pv-drivers@vmware.com +R: VMware Graphics Reviewers linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com +R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers pv-drivers@vmware.com L: linux-input@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@vmware.com -M: pv-drivers@vmware.com +R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers pv-drivers@vmware.com L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: drivers/net/vmxnet3/