From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755985AbaFRXT1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:19:27 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com ([208.91.2.12]:46459 "EHLO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752839AbaFRXT0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:19:26 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add entry for VMware Balloon driver Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:19:15 -0700 Message-ID: <4389061.FeVMqoJiMc@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> Organization: VMware, Inc. User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140618231742.GB7234@kroah.com> References: <1403132941-1394-1-git-send-email-dtor@vmware.com> <20140618231742.GB7234@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 04:17:42 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 04:09:01PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov > > --- > > > > MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++ > > drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 2 +- > > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > index 6c484ac..3a446e8 100644 > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > @@ -9645,6 +9645,12 @@ L: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org > > > > S: Supported > > F: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c > > > > +VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER > > +M: "VMware, Inc." > > +L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > +S: Maintained > > +F: drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c > > I really hate having a "alias" as a maintainer, and not a "real" name. > Kernel development is done by individuals, we don't have companies as > authors or signed-off-by lines, we have developers. > > So I will not accept this, sorry. Please find a real person who is > willing to maintain this code, or just mark it unsupported. > OK, fair enough, we'll find a real name to attach here. Thanks, Dmitry