linux-kernel - Re: MAINTAINERS: correct entry for LVM

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Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:52:35 -0400
From:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
To:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: correct entry for LVM

On Mon, Apr 11 2016 at 11:20am -0400,
Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> wrote:

> The entry of dm-devel@...hat.com was duplicated and the duplicate entry
> was marked as a Maintainer but it appears from the email address that it
> is a List. So remove the entry of M and only keep the L entry.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@...ethink.co.uk>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 51891b2..1c32e82 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -3557,7 +3557,6 @@ S:	Maintained
>  DEVICE-MAPPER  (LVM)
>  M:	Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
>  M:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
> -M:	dm-devel@...hat.com
>  L:	dm-devel@...hat.com
>  W:	http://sources.redhat.com/dm
>  Q:	http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dm-devel/list/
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 

Nack.

DM isn't unique here.  XFS does the same thing:

XFS FILESYSTEM
P:      Silicon Graphics Inc
M:      Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
M:      xfs@....sgi.com
L:      xfs@....sgi.com
...

There really is more important stuff to deal with than bothering about
MAINTAINERS entries like this.  Please stop.