Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add Josh Law as reviewer for library code

[Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2026 at 10:19:31PM +0000, Josh Law wrote:
> Add myself as a designated reviewer for the library code to help review
> incoming patches and improvements.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Law <objecting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sorry but NAK, I appreciate your enthusiasm but this is literally _all_
library code, and you don't have a long track history in the kernel.

Also in [0], [1], etc. you aren't demonstrating a great deal of maturity,
so I don't think it's appropriate for you to be added at this time.

I really don't think a 'catch all' category should be getting arbitrary
extra reviewers in any case.

Please take some time to contribute to the kernel, establish yourself, and
then look to reviewership for a specific category.

Thanks, Lorenzo

> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 96e97d25e1c2..8fd03ab9c657 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -14613,6 +14613,7 @@ F:	tools/testing/nvdimm/
>
>  LIBRARY CODE
>  M:	Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +R:	Josh Law <objecting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  L:	linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  S:	Supported
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git mm-nonmm-unstable
> --
> 2.43.0
>
>

[0]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/c41dbb9d-b8a5-4b5f-9f71-3fe1bed210b6@xxxxxxxxx/
[1]:https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/40767ecf-7e25-48f5-a604-c43b835b6b66@xxxxxxxxx/