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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 21:45:01 +0530
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: correct entry for LVM
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On Monday 11 April 2016 09:21 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 08:50:39PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>> The entry of dm-devel@redhat.com 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.
>
> M and L are not mutually exclusive!
>
> The definition of M is:
>    M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain>
> and since we want patches to be sent to the mailing list, this entry is correct
> as it stands.

L stands for "Mailing list that is relevant to this area", and this is a 
mailing list. :)

regards
sudip