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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:19:17 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 12/12] mm: page_frag: update documentation and
 maintainer for page_frag
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>, davem@davemloft.net, 
	pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, 
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 9:06=E2=80=AFAM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com=
> wrote:
>
> On 09.04.24 17:11, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 6:25=E2=80=AFAM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>=
 wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 15:59:58 +0800 Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> >>>> Just to be clear this isn't an Ack, but if you are going to list
> >>>> maintainers for this my name should be on the list so this is the
> >>>> preferred format. There are still some things to be cleaned up in th=
is
> >>>> patch.
> >>>
> >>> Sure, I was talking about "Alexander seems to be the orginal author f=
or
> >>> page_frag, we can add him to the MAINTAINERS later if we have an ack =
from
> >>> him." in the commit log.
> >>
> >> Do we have to have a MAINTAINERS entry for every 1000 lines of code?
> >> It really feels forced :/
> >
> > I don't disagree. However, if nothing else I think it gets used as a
> > part of get_maintainers.pl that tells you who to email about changes
> > doesn't it? It might make sense in my case since I am still
> > maintaining it using my gmail account, but I think the commits for
> > that were mostly from my Intel account weren't they? So if nothing
> > else it might be a way to provide a trail of breadcrumbs on how to
> > find a maintainer who changed employers..
>
> Would a .mailmap entry also help for your case, such that the mail
> address might get mapped to the new one? (note, I never edited .mailmap
> myself)

Not sure. My concern is that it might undo the existing tracking for
contributions by employer as I know they use the emails for the most
basic setup for that. I suppose that is one downside of being a job
hopper.. :-P

I'd rather not make more work for someone like Jon Corbet or Jakub who
I know maintain statistics based on the emails used and such.