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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 12/12] mm: page_frag: update documentation and
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To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>,
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On 10.04.24 20:19, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 9:06 AM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 09.04.24 17:11, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 6:25 AM 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 this
>>>>>> patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure, I was talking about "Alexander seems to be the orginal author for
>>>>> 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 wouldn't be concerned about undoing existing tracking. I can spot 
people in .mailmap with more than 5 entries / different employers, so it 
is quite common!

> 
> 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.

 From what I recall, they do have their own mapping of mail addresses to 
employers, for example for people that just don't use corporate mail 
addresses.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb