[RFC] Add a 'tag' field to MAINTAINERS

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Dec 16 2021 - 16:45:15 EST


People find it hard to use the right tag when sending patches which
affect a maintainer that they don't interact with often. If we add
a field to MAINTAINERS, perhaps a tool will be written some day that
automatically adds it to patches.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 0a1410d5a621..c6358fa58fed 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
R: Designated reviewer: FullName <address@domain>
These reviewers should be CCed on patches.
L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
+ J: Prefix to use when sending a patch
W: Web-page with status/info
B: URI for where to file bugs. A web-page with detailed bug
filing info, a direct bug tracker link, or a mailto: URI.
@@ -2667,6 +2668,7 @@ F: drivers/leds/leds-blinkm.c
BLOCK LAYER
M: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
L: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+J: block
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git
S: Maintained
F: block/
@@ -14927,6 +14929,7 @@ M: Pawel Osciak <pawel@xxxxxxxxxx>
M: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
M: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
L: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+J: videobuf
S: Maintained
F: drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-*
F: include/media/videobuf2-*