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 6DBEAC433EF for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2022 21:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1382532AbiDTVeE (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:34:04 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48308 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S237756AbiDTVeB (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:34:01 -0400 Received: from relay4.hostedemail.com (relay4.hostedemail.com [64.99.140.37]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4DF73055D for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omf09.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay09.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECF6266D9; Wed, 20 Apr 2022 21:31:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf09.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4A1BD20028; Wed, 20 Apr 2022 21:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Broadcom internal lists aren't maintainers From: Joe Perches To: William Zhang , Florian Fainelli , Andrew Morton Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, LKML Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:31:05 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <04eb301f5b3adbefdd78e76657eff0acb3e3d87f.camel@perches.com> 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: 13rjmijud7m98fqu9mu6q9wntnnjekj3 X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout03 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4A1BD20028 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX18V67XWtsRlfOqFbUCqis+akx6WflBEY9A= X-HE-Tag: 1650490266-900935 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2022-04-20 at 11:50 -0700, William Zhang wrote: > > On 4/19/22 16:11, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-04-19 at 12:00 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > On 4/12/2022 11:34 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > Convert the broadcom internal list M: and L: entries to R: as > > > > exploder email addresses are neither maintainers nor mailing lists. > > > > > > > > Reorder the entries as necessary. > > [] > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > [] > > > > @@ -3746,7 +3746,7 @@ F: include/linux/platform_data/b53.h > > > > > > > > BROADCOM BCM2711/BCM2835 ARM ARCHITECTURE > > > > M: Nicolas Saenz Julienne > > > > -L: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com > > > > +R: Broadcom Kernel Team > > > > > There is not a "Broadcom Kernel Team", the description of R: appears to > > > require some kind of full name, hence the choice of L: instead of R:. > > > > If you don't like "Broadcom Kernel Team", perhaps > > "Broadcom Kernel Reviewers" might work for you. > > > > I think it doesn't matter much. > > > I can see that we shouldn't use M as maintainer for this Broadcom > mailing list email. But I honestly don't understand why we have to use > R. Just for the sake of full name? Not everyone in this distribution > list is reviewer. IMHO I would prefer to change all entries to L > without a full name. I think "R:" is a better choice than "L:" "L:" Mailing list entries have archives that are publicly searchable. Are the broadcom bcm-kernel-feedback-list entries publicly archived? If not, these are one-way entries, so someone sends and hopes only. Replies that are sent from these entries are not visible to the public.