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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:44:29 -0700
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On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 11:16 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> But there have been people who have found serious issues in RCU patches
> who I would not trust as full maintainers.  The ability to find defects
> is valuable in and of itself, and should be recognized as such, even
> when not accompanied by the rest of the maintainership package.

Maybe, but odd-lot reviewers are most likely going to find
these same defects regardless of any "R" designation in
MAINTAINERS.


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