From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Make x86@kernel.org a list and not a maintainer
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:41:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250820174103.3b3eef1e@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e97983fd-b6ee-403a-87c7-53ff37468551@intel.com>
On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:37:57 -0700
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
> > The MAINTAINERS document starts with:
> >
> > M: *Mail* patches to: FullName <address@domain>
> > [..]
> > L: *Mailing list* that is relevant to this area
>
> Yeah, it's not a person, but it's also not a list that folks can
> subscribe to. So there really isn't a good fit for it. I've never heard
> of it causing any problems, so my inclination would be to just leave it
> as-is.
My complaint is that it's listed as both 'L' and 'M'. It should at least be
consistent.
Should it become a list?
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-20 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-20 19:20 Steven Rostedt
2025-08-20 21:37 ` Dave Hansen
2025-08-20 21:41 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2025-08-20 21:44 ` Dave Hansen
2025-08-20 21:49 ` Steven Rostedt
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