Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:06:51 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next v1 12/12] mm: page_frag: update documentation and maintainer for page_frag | From | David Hildenbrand <> |
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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)
-- Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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