Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 5 authors, 2021-11-10

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

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-11-09 00:16:56
Also in: dri-devel, linux-input, linux-rdma, linux-scsi, lkml

On Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:37:53 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
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@@ -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.

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.
private makes no sense and likely these L: entries shouldn't exist.
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