On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:39:16AM -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:50:39AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:

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On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:08:16PM -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:

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From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <redacted>

Deep has decided to transfer maintainership of the VMware hypervisor
interface to Srivatsa, and the joint-maintainership of paravirt ops in
the Linux kernel to Srivatsa and Alexey. Update the MAINTAINERS file
to reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <redacted>
Acked-by: Alexey Makhalov <redacted>
Acked-by: Deep Shah <redacted>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Why are MAINTAINERS updates needed for stable?  That's not normal :(

So that people posting bug-fixes / backports to these subsystems for
older kernels (stable and LTS releases) will CC the new subsystem
maintainers.

That's not how stable releases work at all.

That's why I added CC stable tag only to the first two
patches which add/replace maintainers and not the third patch which is
just a cleanup.

Patches for stable kernels need to go into Linus's tree first, and if
you have the MAINTAINERS file updated properly there, then you will be
properly cc:ed.  We do not look at the MAINTAINERS file for the older
kernel when sending patches out, it's totally ignored as that was the
snapshot at a point in time, which is usually no longer the true state.

So this would have no affect at all, sorry.  That's why I asked if you
all really realized what you were doing here :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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