On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 05:26:53PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > 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 Thanks Guenter and Andrew. Given xdp maintainers were included by mistake, I will remove them from the future discussions of this hwmon patch series. Cheers, Tao
