Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: correct entry for LVM

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Tuesday 12 April 2016 12:20 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 11/04/16 17:39, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > On Monday 11 April 2016 09:53 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:45:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > > L stands for "Mailing list that is relevant to this area", and this is a
> > > > mailing list. :)
> > >
> > > Your proposed patch isn't changing the L entry, so this is of no
> > > relevance.
> >
> > Sorry, I am not understanding.
> >
> > The current entry in MAINTAINERS is:
> > DEVICE-MAPPER  (LVM)
> > M:      Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > M:      Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > M:      dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
> > L:      dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
> > ...
> >
> > So my patch just removed the line : "M:      dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx"
> >
> > So now the entry becomes :
> > DEVICE-MAPPER  (LVM)
> > M:      Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > M:      Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > L:      dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
> > ...
> >
> > So, now it correctly shows dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx as a mailing list which
> > should have cc to all the patches related to LVM.
> >
> > Or am I understanding this wrong?
>
> Yes. Because (I guess M stands for maintainer) this list has maintainer
> status. As all patches should be sent to the maintainers therefore all
> patches should be sent to this list.
>
> The same person can appear twice in a phone book, once under their name
> and once under their job title. This is exactly the same situation -
> this list should appear once as a list to tell people that it's a list,
> AND ALSO as a maintainer to tell people that patches must be sent to the
> list.
>
> I guess English is not your first language, but the important point is
> that M and L are not mutually exclusive.

Don't worry, English is my first language. Have you tried with 
getmaintainer.pl and seen the result? It only shows dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx 
as a Maintainer and not as a list. (I noticed because I was sending a 
patch, and hence this patch again). But I believe a mailing list can not 
be a Maintainer ( have you seen any patch with a Signed-off-by: from a 
mailing list? ).
Anyway, I think this thread has become too long for an unimportant patch.

regards
sudip