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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Mark VMware mailing list entries as
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From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>, jgross@suse.com,
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Date:   Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:37:53 -0800
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On Mon, 2021-11-08 at 12:30 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
> 
> VMware mailing lists in the MAINTAINERS file are private lists meant
> for VMware-internal review/notification for patches to the respective
> subsystems. So, in an earlier discussion [1][2], it was recommended to
> mark them as such. Update all the remaining VMware mailing list
> references to use that format -- "L: list@address (private)".
[]
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
[]
> @@ -6134,8 +6134,8 @@ T:	git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
>  F:	drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/
>  
>  DRM DRIVER FOR VMWARE VIRTUAL GPU
> -M:	"VMware Graphics" <linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com>
>  M:	Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>
> +L:	linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com (private)

This MAINTAINERS file is for _public_ use, marking something
non-public isn't useful.

private makes no sense and likely these L: entries shouldn't exist.