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

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:56:10 +0800
From: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>, Jakub Kicinski
	<kuba@...nel.org>
CC: <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 2024/4/9 23:11, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> 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?

Do we have something like rule or guidance against that?
Looking at the entry in MAINTAINERS, it seems quite normal to me,
I thouht it is generally encourage someone with willing and ability
to be a maintainer/reviewer.

Considering you have refused adding me as the reviewer of page_pool
despite the support from two maintainers of page_pool, for the season
of something like below:
'page pool is increasingly central to the whole networking stack.
The bar for "ownership" is getting higher and higher..'

I think I might need a second opinion here.

>> It really feels forced :/

I am not a native english speaker here, I would rather not comment
on the 'forced' part here and focus more on the technical disscusion.

> 
> 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..

+1.
I generally pay more attention to the patch that is to'ed or cc'ed
to my email when I am overloaded with other work.

> .
>