This series updates a few maintainer entries for VMware-maintained subsystems and cleans up references to VMware's private mailing lists to make it clear that they are effectively email-aliases to reach out to reviewers.
Changes from v1->v3: - Add Zack as the named maintainer for vmmouse driver - Use R: to denote email-aliases for VMware reviewers
Regards, Srivatsa
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Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) (3): MAINTAINERS: Update maintainers for paravirt ops and VMware hypervisor interface MAINTAINERS: Add Zack as maintainer of vmmouse driver MAINTAINERS: Mark VMware mailing list entries as email aliases
MAINTAINERS | 30 +++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) srivatsa@csail.mit.edu
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 21c0e49b80b9..073e00ef9434 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 -M: "VMware, Inc." pv-drivers@vmware.com +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 -M: "VMware, Inc." pv-drivers@vmware.com +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 @@ -20073,15 +20073,15 @@ 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: Zack Rusin zackr@vmware.com -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 @@ -20089,7 +20089,7 @@ 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/
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:09:06 -0800 Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
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
It'd be preferable for these corporate entries to be marked or otherwise distinguishable so that we can ignore them when we try to purge MAINTAINERS from developers who stopped participating.
These addresses will never show up in a commit tag which is normally sign of inactivity.
On Wed, 2021-11-10 at 17:39 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:09:06 -0800 Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
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
It'd be preferable for these corporate entries to be marked or otherwise distinguishable so that we can ignore them when we try to purge MAINTAINERS from developers who stopped participating.
These addresses will never show up in a commit tag which is normally sign of inactivity.
Funny.
The link below is from over 5 years ago.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1472081625.3746.217.camel@perches.com/
Almost all of those entries are still in MAINTAINERS.
I think the concept of purging is a non-issue.
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:19:53 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
On Wed, 2021-11-10 at 17:39 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:09:06 -0800 Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
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
It'd be preferable for these corporate entries to be marked or otherwise distinguishable so that we can ignore them when we try to purge MAINTAINERS from developers who stopped participating.
These addresses will never show up in a commit tag which is normally sign of inactivity.
Funny.
The link below is from over 5 years ago.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1472081625.3746.217.camel@perches.com/
Almost all of those entries are still in MAINTAINERS.
I think the concept of purging is a non-issue.
I cleaned networking in January and intend to do it again in 2 months. See:
054c4610bd05 MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS 4f3786e01194 MAINTAINERS: ipvs: move Wensong Zhang to CREDITS 0e4ed0b62b5a MAINTAINERS: tls: move Aviad to CREDITS c41efbf2ad56 MAINTAINERS: ena: remove Zorik Machulsky from reviewers 5e62d124f75a MAINTAINERS: vrf: move Shrijeet to CREDITS 09cd3f4683a9 MAINTAINERS: net: move Alexey Kuznetsov to CREDITS 93089de91e85 MAINTAINERS: altx: move Jay Cliburn to CREDITS 8b0f64b113d6 MAINTAINERS: remove names from mailing list maintainers
[ Resending since my previous reply didn't reach the mailing lists. ]
On 11/11/21 5:55 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:19:53 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
On Wed, 2021-11-10 at 17:39 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:09:06 -0800 Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
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
It'd be preferable for these corporate entries to be marked or otherwise distinguishable so that we can ignore them when we try to purge MAINTAINERS from developers who stopped participating.
These addresses will never show up in a commit tag which is normally sign of inactivity.
Funny.
The link below is from over 5 years ago.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1472081625.3746.217.camel@perches.com/
Almost all of those entries are still in MAINTAINERS.
I think the concept of purging is a non-issue.
I cleaned networking in January and intend to do it again in 2 months. See:
054c4610bd05 MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS 4f3786e01194 MAINTAINERS: ipvs: move Wensong Zhang to CREDITS 0e4ed0b62b5a MAINTAINERS: tls: move Aviad to CREDITS c41efbf2ad56 MAINTAINERS: ena: remove Zorik Machulsky from reviewers 5e62d124f75a MAINTAINERS: vrf: move Shrijeet to CREDITS 09cd3f4683a9 MAINTAINERS: net: move Alexey Kuznetsov to CREDITS 93089de91e85 MAINTAINERS: altx: move Jay Cliburn to CREDITS 8b0f64b113d6 MAINTAINERS: remove names from mailing list maintainers
I'm assuming the purging is not totally automated, is it? As long as the entries are informative to a human reader, it should be possible to skip the relevant ones when purging inactive entries.
I believe this patch makes the situation better than it is currently (at least for the human reader), by marking lists without public read-access in a format that is more appropriate. In the future, we could perhaps improve on it to ease automation too, but for now I think it is worthwhile to merge this change (unless there are strong objections or better alternatives that everyone agrees on).
Regards, Srivatsa
On 10.11.21 21:09, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) srivatsa@csail.mit.edu
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
Acked-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com
Juergen
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