Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainers for paravirt ops and VMware hypervisor interface

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 10:18 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 08:33:40PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-11-15 at 14:39 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 12:16:53PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > > Maybe we should just remove MAINTAINERS from stable trees to make it
> > > > obvious.
> > > 
> > > I don't think we should go quite that far. Instead, perhaps we can
> > > modify get_maintainer.pl (if needed) such that it prints out a warning
> > > or reminder to consult the upstream MAINTAINERS file if the script is
> > > invoked on an older stable kernel.
> > 
> > I don't see how that's feasible.
> > 
> 
> Not that I'm pushing for this change, but isn't it straight-forward to
> distinguish upstream and stable kernel releases based on their
> versioning schemes? The SUBLEVEL in the Makefile is always 0 for
> upstream, and positive for stable versions (ignoring ancient kernels
> like v2.6.32, of course). Since stable kernels are behind mainline by
> definition, anytime the get_maintainer.pl script is invoked on a
> kernel with a positive SUBLEVEL value, we can print out the said
> warning/reminder (if it is considered useful).

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