Re: [PATCH net-next] net/smc: Run patches also by RDMA ML

[Gerd Bayer]

On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 12:01 +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 06:44:57PM +0100, Gerd Bayer wrote:
> > Commits for the SMC protocol usually get carried through the netdev
> > mailing list. Some portions use InfiniBand verbs that are discussed on
> > the RDMA mailing list. So run patches by that list too to increase the
> > likelihood that all interested parties can see them.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 32d157621b44fb919307e865e2481ab564eb17df..16024268b5fc1feb6c0d01eab3048bd9255d0bf9 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -20943,6 +20943,7 @@ M:	Jan Karcher <jaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >  R:	D. Wythe <alibuda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >  R:	Tony Lu <tonylu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >  R:	Wen Gu <guwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > +L:	linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  L:	linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 

Hi Leon,

> Why don't we have netdev ML here too?

since all smc code resides in net/smc the filter tag F: net/ in
"NETWORKING [GENERAL]" provides that. My first internal draft contained
an explicit L: tag for the netdev ML, but I dropped it to avoid any
redundancy.

> 
> Thanks

Hope this helps,
Gerd