linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove bouncing kprobes maintainer

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Message-ID: <4f2f7e26-561e-483a-bc67-0cc29549b866@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:49:38 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
 Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Naveen N Rao <naveen@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove bouncing kprobes maintainer

On 8/10/25 23:53, Masami Hiramatsu (Google) wrote:
>> The kprobes MAINTAINERS entry includes anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com.
>> That address is bouncing. Remove it.
>>
>> This still leaves three other listed maintainers.
> OK, should this be an urgent commit?

It's not urgent in that it's obviously not breaking anything.

But if it was in code I maintain, I'd probably send it up to Linus to
apply in the next -rc kernel instead of waiting for the next merge window.