On Mon, 2021-11-08 at 16:16 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
On Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:37:53 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
@@ -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 +L: linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com (private)
This MAINTAINERS file is for _public_ use, marking something non-public isn't useful.
But Greg has a point. Corporations like to send us code with a list as the maintainer and MODULE_AUTHOR set to corp's name. We deal with humans, not legal entities.
MAINTAINERS is used not for corporations private use but to find out _who_ to send and cc patches and defect reports.
A "private" email address used only for corporate internal review cannot receive patches.
I've been trying to get them to use "M: email" without the name, but "L: list (private)" also works.
Either way I feel like we need _some_ way to tell humans from corporate "please CC this address" entries.
This is not the way AFAIKT.
private makes no sense and likely these L: entries shouldn't exist.