# Re: \[PATCH v4 3/3\] MAINTAINERS: Mark VMware mailing list entries as email aliases

- From: Joe Perches \<joe@perches.com\>
- Date: 2021-11-16 22:58:27 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/11/1576899
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/dri-devel/2021/11/1576886/t.md

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On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 14:41 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <redacted>
> 
> 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) <redacted>

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
[]
> @@ -6223,8 +6223,8 @@ T:	git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
>  F:	drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/
>  
>  DRM DRIVER FOR VMWARE VIRTUAL GPU
> -M:	"VMware Graphics" [ref]
>  M:	Zack Rusin [ref]
> +R:	VMware Graphics Reviewers [ref]

etc...


```