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author | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2014-01-21 10:59:20 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2014-01-22 13:25:55 +0100 |
commit | 981c3a4ff8596a9dcd2b058ee12d6749639c32a5 (patch) | |
tree | 57e828355374b2e3fc502eacf552cc524f2924f3 /lib/test-string_helpers.c | |
parent | 15c81026204da897a05424c79263aea861a782cc (diff) |
MAINTAINERS: Restore "L: [email protected]" entries
A couple of years ago all the "L: lkml" email list entries in
MAINTAINERS were removed and replaced with a 'the rest' entry
at the end of the file - under the theory that this is unnecessary
duplication and that people would find it intuitive:
b5472cddbe2c MAINTAINERS: remove L: [email protected] from all but "THE REST"
So it turns out that it's all but intuitive, not all people
use scripts/get_maintainer.pl to extract maintainer contact info,
some people read the MAINTAINERS file and see the lack of 'L:' entries
of various lkml-only subsystems and are sending patches to the
maintainers only, without Cc:-ing lkml. They arguably have a point.
In hindsight removing all the "L: lkml" entries was probably not
an overly good idea, not all mechanic duplication should be eliminated:
in files read by humans it's useful to have 'at a glance' summary for
all email addresses important to a subsystem's maintenance, in a single
place, without too many imported rules and assumptions.
So, to make the lkml fallback really apparent, add back 'L: lkml'
entries to all subsystem entries whose workflow I'm involved in.
This should at minimum be a per subsystem policy thing.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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