From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0016.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C75372765C9 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.16 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1755726068; cv=none; b=bPj8eo8Fu7dzEu5snZlzy+HQhk92HnMqWFxQf3Di2jd9Ng7HQtswNwqAXajKsGDg04TQubrpVCD8c3ectYaUy9JkoF+DWiHpzti3bggy2EwZQEf1MrT9zGMx6Nts3wpOF2om71GmelRhoUmHj+YvYYVk8rZg8/bldo6uodvSRSg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1755726068; c=relaxed/simple; bh=kl5KF1g7TcqLHhja+Q2NYapGPEBXXCGdvVH6XxCqVYo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=RdDadAA8TNVko/tA3VZaUZJjlDeccbl6Rrpl/aO5txjc99IR65e4pvH8aMXzj87bDvsiMR8ZY+ezci4bkIao7ri422TCrBseBRBBVslqKAaZFmHma84MHww/i+TMV+AmsxMOxUUjufLlO4jqfvFGyNCjEKwIwKzhgQDVnncS9Vg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=goodmis.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.16 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=goodmis.org Received: from omf05.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF461163A9; Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: rostedt@goodmis.org) by omf05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5E2CF20019; Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:41:01 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:41:03 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Dave Hansen Cc: LKML , x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , Tony Luck , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Make x86@kernel.org a list and not a maintainer Message-ID: <20250820174103.3b3eef1e@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: References: <20250820152054.165811ea@gandalf.local.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.20.0git84 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: 8ty6fwdeqn44mpfpqudt43chw7afdtop X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout03 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 5E2CF20019 X-Session-Marker: 726F737465647440676F6F646D69732E6F7267 X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX1/0Z5ga12rGd9+K90rKiWvDuewRABuycHM= X-HE-Tag: 1755726061-828463 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX1/8yRYdufd5HGk9ceOmUWr0/F7272WSdQ5DGFyqsXQJIUgNaj3MGcPN62GDivfT5qc6Pflnqb4Qa6ma9sDzGyXJyoUXY4swFAuWw+pCTp+HJAFWRscgEPrenXBLTTwQPYxpa+p1m0OdSm2coonM4RTlzanOCX3LoknfGZQ9Yxt4wet9MPj5+RRJau+WsGbJ9EhYWVebcTH7C1D0uDlds3zlz5yyhBBIjUh/+YuNuailEMnRDDdHj87NFs9GyMQOnjZ8G2J1C7Rc8r31asOnjXuK7oPkmq9EPLd8nem6OWsE6qv1fQHQ1dU0Nh5WXPHW28F01O+z1uXUWD0K484JC0pIgd1aFuIRZz6QTaN+Fob/25Dvy0+gafV70t+OqRdAFgM= On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:37:57 -0700 Dave Hansen wrote: > > The MAINTAINERS document starts with: > > > > M: *Mail* patches to: FullName > > [..] > > 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