From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585D1C00140 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:18:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S239215AbiGZQSX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:18:23 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34154 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229815AbiGZQSV (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:18:21 -0400 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0014.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.14]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A012255A5 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omf09.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay01.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17811C63C5; Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:18:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf09.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3D0AA20024; Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:18:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1c536f8e9666725ce9f3eb97acc34d08f38d2095.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] VMCI: Update maintainers for VMCI From: Joe Perches To: Vishnu Dasa , Greg KH , "rajeshjalisatgi@gmail.com" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , Pv-drivers , Bryan Tan Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:18:15 -0700 In-Reply-To: <47D07B41-C327-4908-A383-683FC6C67040@vmware.com> References: <20220725163246.38486-1-vdasa@vmware.com> <47D07B41-C327-4908-A383-683FC6C67040@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT User-Agent: Evolution 3.44.1-0ubuntu1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Stat-Signature: 4ogh8f9z7ycintqz6pitj7rkzrkyccbw X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout01 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 3D0AA20024 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX19NAXR081PqcA4zDQC4b0ZscieEdEbqVDI= X-HE-Tag: 1658852296-201436 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2022-07-26 at 15:55 +0000, Vishnu Dasa wrote: > > On Jul 26, 2022, at 8:10 AM, Greg KH > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 06:29:25PM +0000, Vishnu Dasa wrote: > > > > On Jul 25, 2022, at 11:05 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:32:46AM -0700, vdasa@vmware.com wrote: > > > > > From: Vishnu Dasa > > > > > Remove Rajesh as a maintainer for the VMCI driver. > > > > Why? > > > Rajesh is no longer with VMware and won't be working on VMCI. > > > > But employment does not matter for maintainership and has nothing to do > > with it. Maintainership follows the person, not the company, you all > > know this. > > > > So for obvious reasons, I can't take this type of change without > > Rajesh acking it. > > I understand. After getting in touch with Rajesh, cc'ing him via his > personal email ID. > > Rajesh, could you please provide your ack if you agree with this patch to > remove you as the maintainer for VMCI? If being an employee of a company is a criteria for maintainership of this subsystem, likely the subsystem entry should be: "S: Supported" not "S: Maintained" MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMCI DRIVER MAINTAINERS-M: Bryan Tan MAINTAINERS-M: Rajesh Jalisatgi MAINTAINERS-M: Vishnu Dasa MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers MAINTAINERS-L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained Likely that's true for every VMware entry. MAINTAINERS:VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER MAINTAINERS-M: Nadav Amit MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers MAINTAINERS-L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c MAINTAINERS- MAINTAINERS:VMWARE PVRDMA DRIVER MAINTAINERS-M: Bryan Tan MAINTAINERS-M: Vishnu Dasa MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers MAINTAINERS-L: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/infiniband/hw/vmw_pvrdma/ MAINTAINERS- MAINTAINERS-VMware PVSCSI driver MAINTAINERS-M: Vishal Bhakta MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers MAINTAINERS-L: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.h MAINTAINERS- MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMMOUSE SUBDRIVER MAINTAINERS-M: Zack Rusin MAINTAINERS-R: VMware Graphics Reviewers MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers MAINTAINERS-L: linux-input@vger.kernel.org MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.c MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.h MAINTAINERS- MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMXNET3 ETHERNET DRIVER MAINTAINERS-M: Ronak Doshi MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers MAINTAINERS-L: netdev@vger.kernel.org MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/net/vmxnet3/ MAINTAINERS-