Re: MAINTAINERS: correct entry for LVM

From: Mike Snitzer
Date: Mon Apr 11 2016 - 19:52:42 EST


On Mon, Apr 11 2016 at 11:20am -0400,
Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The entry of dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx was duplicated and the duplicate entry
> was marked as a Maintainer but it appears from the email address that it
> is a List. So remove the entry of M and only keep the L entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 51891b2..1c32e82 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -3557,7 +3557,6 @@ S: Maintained
> DEVICE-MAPPER (LVM)
> M: Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> M: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> -M: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
> L: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
> W: http://sources.redhat.com/dm
> Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dm-devel/list/
> --
> 1.9.1
>

Nack.

DM isn't unique here. XFS does the same thing:

XFS FILESYSTEM
P: Silicon Graphics Inc
M: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
M: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
L: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
...

There really is more important stuff to deal with than bothering about
MAINTAINERS entries like this. Please stop.