Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 4 authors, 2021-11-10

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

From: Juergen Gross via Virtualization <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-09 05:34:50
Also in: dri-devel, linux-input, linux-rdma, linux-scsi, lkml, netdev

On 08.11.21 21:30, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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. So, in an earlier discussion [1][2], it was recommended to
mark them as such. Update all the remaining VMware mailing list
references to use that format -- "L: list@address (private)".

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/r/YPfp0Ff6KuyPlyrc@kroah.com (local)
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/r/1626861766-11115-1-git-send-email-jhansen@vmware.com (local)

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <redacted>
Cc: Nadav Amit <redacted>
Cc: Vivek Thampi <redacted>
Cc: Vishal Bhakta <redacted>
Cc: Ronak Doshi <redacted>
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
Acked-by: Zack Rusin <redacted>
---

  MAINTAINERS |   16 ++++++++--------
  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 118cf8170d02..3e92176e68fb 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>
+L:	linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com (private)
  L:	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
  S:	Supported
  T:	git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
@@ -20032,7 +20032,7 @@ F:	tools/testing/vsock/
  
  VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER
  M:	Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
-M:	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
+L:	pv-drivers@vmware.com (private)
  L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
  S:	Maintained
  F:	drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
@@ -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>
+L:	pv-drivers@vmware.com (private)
  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>
+L:	pv-drivers@vmware.com (private)
  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>
+L:	pv-drivers@vmware.com (private)
Maybe replace "(private)" with "(mail alias)"?

This makes it rather clear that it is a valid address to send patches
to, but there isn't public read access like to a ML.


Juergen
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