Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Document maintainers for xen/common/

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:53 +0100 on 17 Sep (1442494439), Ian Jackson wrote:
> This is a copy of the `THE REST' entry but with my own entry removed
> (as I do not normally review hypervisor patches) and Andrew Cooper's
> added (which seems appropriate given his status as x86 hypervisor
> maintainer).
> 
> The effect is that patches touching xen/common/ will no longer be CC'd
> to me; but also that Ian C, Andrew, Jan, Keir and Tim will get _all_
> patches touching xen/common/, not just ones which match one of their
> existing more specific entries.

This has the same problem as the previous patch, on a smaller
scale.  There's no need for us all to be CC'd on code that already has
a maintainer (e.g. scheduler, xentrace, device-tree, tmem...)

I would rather your v1 plus an appropriate change to get_maintainers.

Cheers,

Tim.

> Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> v2: A completely different approach following discussion with Ian C.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index a6bece6..e35c1e9 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -404,6 +404,16 @@ F:  xen/include/xsm/
>  F:  xen/xsm/
>  F:  docs/misc/xsm-flask.txt
>  
> +HYPERVISOR CORE
> +M:   Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> +M:   Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>
> +M:   Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
> +M:   Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:   Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +L:   xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +S:   Supported
> +F:   xen/common/
> +
>  THE REST
>  M:   Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  M:   Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 

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