On Tuesday 12 April 2016 12:20 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
On 11/04/16 17:39, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
On Monday 11 April 2016 09:53 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:45:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
L stands for "Mailing list that is relevant to this area", and this is a
mailing list. :)
Your proposed patch isn't changing the L entry, so this is of no
relevance.
Sorry, I am not understanding.
The current entry in MAINTAINERS is:
DEVICE-MAPPER (LVM)
M: Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
M: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
M: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
L: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
...
So my patch just removed the line : "M: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx"
So now the entry becomes :
DEVICE-MAPPER (LVM)
M: Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
M: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
L: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
...
So, now it correctly shows dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx as a mailing list which
should have cc to all the patches related to LVM.
Or am I understanding this wrong?
Yes. Because (I guess M stands for maintainer) this list has maintainer
status. As all patches should be sent to the maintainers therefore all
patches should be sent to this list.
The same person can appear twice in a phone book, once under their name
and once under their job title. This is exactly the same situation -
this list should appear once as a list to tell people that it's a list,
AND ALSO as a maintainer to tell people that patches must be sent to the
list.
I guess English is not your first language, but the important point is
that M and L are not mutually exclusive.
Don't worry, English is my first language. Have you tried with
getmaintainer.pl and seen the result? It only shows dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
as a Maintainer and not as a list. (I noticed because I was sending a
patch, and hence this patch again). But I believe a mailing list can not
be a Maintainer ( have you seen any patch with a Signed-off-by: from a
mailing list? ).
Anyway, I think this thread has become too long for an unimportant patch.
regards
sudip
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