Virtualization - Nov 2021 - [PATCH v3 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainers for paravirt ops and VMware hypervisor interface

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:08:16PM -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat
wrote:
> From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa at csail.mit.edu>
> 
> Deep has decided to transfer maintainership of the VMware hypervisor
> interface to Srivatsa, and the joint-maintainership of paravirt ops in
> the Linux kernel to Srivatsa and Alexey. Update the MAINTAINERS file
> to reflect this change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa at csail.mit.edu>
> Acked-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov at vmware.com>
> Acked-by: Deep Shah <sdeep at vmware.com>
> Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Why are MAINTAINERS updates needed for stable?  That's not normal :(

On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 07:50:39 +0100
Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa at
csail.mit.edu>
> > Acked-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov at vmware.com>
> > Acked-by: Deep Shah <sdeep at vmware.com>
> > Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com>
> > Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org  
> 
> Why are MAINTAINERS updates needed for stable?  That's not normal :(
Probably not needed, but does it hurt?  And who's normal?

-- Steve

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:50:39AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:08:16PM -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> > From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa at csail.mit.edu>
> > 
> > Deep has decided to transfer maintainership of the VMware hypervisor
> > interface to Srivatsa, and the joint-maintainership of paravirt ops in
> > the Linux kernel to Srivatsa and Alexey. Update the MAINTAINERS file
> > to reflect this change.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa at
csail.mit.edu>
> > Acked-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov at vmware.com>
> > Acked-by: Deep Shah <sdeep at vmware.com>
> > Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com>
> > Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> 
> Why are MAINTAINERS updates needed for stable?  That's not normal :(
So that people posting bug-fixes / backports to these subsystems for
older kernels (stable and LTS releases) will CC the new subsystem
maintainers. That's why I added CC stable tag only to the first two
patches which add/replace maintainers and not the third patch which is
just a cleanup.

Regards,
Srivatsa