From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757207Ab2IYQ5e (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:57:34 -0400 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:58613 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753454Ab2IYQ5d (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:57:33 -0400 Message-ID: <1348592250.2648.7.camel@joe-AO722> Subject: Re: [PATCHv1 6/6] MAINTAINERS: add recently created files to dw_dmac section From: Joe Perches To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Viresh Kumar , Vinod Koul , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:57:30 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1348580274.13371.127.camel@smile> References: <1348575190-11761-1-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <1348575190-11761-7-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <1348579169.2476.1.camel@joe-AO722> <1348580274.13371.127.camel@smile> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 16:37 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 06:19 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > You also added yourself as a maintainer. > > Congrats/sympathies, etc... > Actually I prefer to be just a supporter, because I introduce few > additional files. But if I understood correctly, there is no way to > distinguish person statuses in one section. Hi Andy. True, the status refers to the section, not the person. Supported is a nominally "higher" level of stewardship than maintainer. Supported is supposed to mean you get paid to look after the code. All of these section blocks aren't all that important anyway. It's not like there's a signed contract or something in case you don't review a suggested patch. I think of these section blocks as one of the ways to get the appropriate people to look at patches and bug reports. cheers, Joe