linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Make x86@...nel.org a list and not a maintainer

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Message-ID: <20250820174103.3b3eef1e@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:41:03 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org, Thomas Gleixner
 <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra
 <peterz@...radead.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Dave Hansen
 <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, "H. Peter
 Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Make x86@...nel.org a list and not a maintainer

On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:37:57 -0700
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> wrote:

> > The MAINTAINERS document starts with:
> > 
> >         M: *Mail* patches to: FullName <address@...ain>
> > 	[..]
> >         L: *Mailing list* that is relevant to this area  
> 
> Yeah, it's not a person, but it's also not a list that folks can
> subscribe to. So there really isn't a good fit for it. I've never heard
> of it causing any problems, so my inclination would be to just leave it
> as-is.

My complaint is that it's listed as both 'L' and 'M'. It should at least be
consistent.

Should it become a list?

-- Steve