Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainers for paravirt ops and VMware hypervisor interface

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Date: Thu Nov 11 2021 - 10:36:15 EST


On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:50:39AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:08:16PM -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> > From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Deep has decided to transfer maintainership of the VMware hypervisor
> > interface to Srivatsa, and the joint-maintainership of paravirt ops in
> > the Linux kernel to Srivatsa and Alexey. Update the MAINTAINERS file
> > to reflect this change.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Deep Shah <sdeep@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Why are MAINTAINERS updates needed for stable? That's not normal :(

So that people posting bug-fixes / backports to these subsystems for
older kernels (stable and LTS releases) will CC the new subsystem
maintainers. That's why I added CC stable tag only to the first two
patches which add/replace maintainers and not the third patch which is
just a cleanup.

Regards,
Srivatsa