Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754836AbcDKS4m (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:56:42 -0400 Received: from auth-4.ukservers.net ([217.10.138.158]:45142 "EHLO auth-4.ukservers.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752419AbcDKS4l (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:56:41 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 393 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:56:41 EDT Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: correct entry for LVM To: Sudip Mukherjee , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alasdair Kergon , Mike Snitzer , Shaohua Li , dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Joe Perches References: <1460388039-20282-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <20160411155147.GB9288@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> <570BCD85.6090807@gmail.com> <20160411162306.GC9288@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> <570BD354.2000100@gmail.com> From: Wols Lists Message-ID: <570BF1DB.1040700@youngman.org.uk> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:50:03 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <570BD354.2000100@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1624 Lines: 48 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 > M: Mike Snitzer > M: dm-devel@redhat.com > L: dm-devel@redhat.com > ... > > So my patch just removed the line : "M: dm-devel@redhat.com" > > So now the entry becomes : > DEVICE-MAPPER (LVM) > M: Alasdair Kergon > M: Mike Snitzer > L: dm-devel@redhat.com > ... > > So, now it correctly shows dm-devel@redhat.com 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. Cheers, Wol