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 ACDAEC433EF for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 02:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231589AbhLQCkB (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:40:01 -0500 Received: from relay036.a.hostedemail.com ([64.99.140.36]:17492 "EHLO relay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229471AbhLQCkA (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:40:00 -0500 Received: from omf10.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay08.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C6B2051E; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 02:39:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf10.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id BAB1635; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 02:39:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <286e55e0c37d2ae60c123412318f90accf0473d0.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [RFC] Add a 'tag' field to MAINTAINERS From: Joe Perches To: Matthew Wilcox , Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:39:57 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.40.4-1ubuntu2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: e1hmq1ekhdkdd8tu1q3cma4n3p5umpqy X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout05 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: BAB1635 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX1+L+MsXCm29j3MGY4MfgRejPTyewD0MGG8= X-HE-Tag: 1639708798-907170 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2021-12-16 at 21:43 +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > People find it hard to use the right tag when sending patches which > affect a maintainer that they don't interact with often. If we add > a field to MAINTAINERS, perhaps a tool will be written some day that > automatically adds it to patches. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 0a1410d5a621..c6358fa58fed 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Descriptions of section entries: > R: Designated reviewer: FullName > These reviewers should be CCed on patches. > L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area > + J: Prefix to use when sending a patch > W: Web-page with status/info > B: URI for where to file bugs. A web-page with detailed bug > filing info, a direct bug tracker link, or a mailto: URI. > @@ -2667,6 +2668,7 @@ F: drivers/leds/leds-blinkm.c > BLOCK LAYER > M: Jens Axboe > L: linux-block@vger.kernel.org > +J: block > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git > S: Maintained > F: block/ > @@ -14927,6 +14929,7 @@ M: Pawel Osciak > M: Marek Szyprowski > M: Kyungmin Park > L: linux-media@vger.kernel.org > +J: videobuf > S: Maintained > F: drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-* > F: include/media/videobuf2-* >