linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 12/12] mm: page_frag: update documentation and maintainer for page

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 08:11:55 -0700
From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>, davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 12/12] mm: page_frag: update documentation and
 maintainer for page_frag

On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 6:25 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.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..