On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:39:16AM -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:50:39AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:08:16PM -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) srivatsa@csail.mit.edu
Deep has decided to transfer maintainership of the VMware hypervisor interface to Srivatsa, and the joint-maintainership of paravirt ops in the Linux kernel to Srivatsa and Alexey. Update the MAINTAINERS file to reflect this change.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) srivatsa@csail.mit.edu Acked-by: Alexey Makhalov amakhalov@vmware.com Acked-by: Deep Shah sdeep@vmware.com Acked-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Why are MAINTAINERS updates needed for stable? That's not normal :(
So that people posting bug-fixes / backports to these subsystems for older kernels (stable and LTS releases) will CC the new subsystem maintainers.
That's not how stable releases work at all.
That's why I added CC stable tag only to the first two patches which add/replace maintainers and not the third patch which is just a cleanup.
Patches for stable kernels need to go into Linus's tree first, and if you have the MAINTAINERS file updated properly there, then you will be properly cc:ed. We do not look at the MAINTAINERS file for the older kernel when sending patches out, it's totally ignored as that was the snapshot at a point in time, which is usually no longer the true state.
So this would have no affect at all, sorry. That's why I asked if you all really realized what you were doing here :)
thanks,
greg k-h