On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 05:01:19PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 03:42:53PM -0800, Tao Ren wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 12:27:19AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 03:09:27PM -0800, rentao.bupt@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > From: Tao Ren <rentao.bupt@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > The patch series adds hardware monitoring driver for the Maxim MAX127 > > > > chip. > > > > > > Hi Tao > > > > > > Why are using sending a hwmon driver to the networking mailing list? > > > > > > Andrew > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > I added netdev because the mailing list is included in "get_maintainer.pl > > Documentation/hwmon/index.rst" output. Is it the right command to find > > reviewers? Could you please suggest? Thank you. > > I have no idea why running get_maintainer.pl on > Documentation/hwmon/index.rst returns such a large list of mailing > lists and people. For some reason it includes everyone in the XDP > maintainer list. If anyone has an idea how that happens, please > let me know - we'll want to get this fixed to avoid the same problem > in the future. > I found it. The XDP maintainer entry has: K: xdp This matches Documentation/hwmon/index.rst. $ grep xdp Documentation/hwmon/index.rst xdpe12284 It seems to me that a context match such as "xdp" in MAINTAINERS isn't really appropriate. "xdp" matches a total of 348 files in the kernel. The large majority of those is not XDP related. The maintainers of XDP (and all the listed mailing lists) should not be surprised to get a large number of odd review requests if they want to review every single patch on files which include the term "xdp". Guenter
