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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainers for paravirt ops
 and VMware hypervisor interface
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, jgross@suse.com,
        x86@kernel.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com,
        Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>,
        Deep Shah <sdeep@vmware.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, keerthanak@vmware.com,
        srivatsab@vmware.com, anishs@vmware.com, vithampi@vmware.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, namit@vmware.com, kuba@kernel.org,
        rostedt@goodmis.org
Date:   Mon, 15 Nov 2021 20:33:40 -0800
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On Mon, 2021-11-15 at 14:39 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 12:16:53PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > Maybe we should just remove MAINTAINERS from stable trees to make it
> > obvious.
> 
> I don't think we should go quite that far. Instead, perhaps we can
> modify get_maintainer.pl (if needed) such that it prints out a warning
> or reminder to consult the upstream MAINTAINERS file if the script is
> invoked on an older stable kernel.

I don't see how that's feasible.