On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 14:23 +0530, Alok Kataria wrote: > Hey, > > This change adds an entry to the maintainers file to explicitly state > that any changes to vmware.c should be sent to the authors of the file > as well.
It never hurts to add MAINTAINER entries. > If you are thinking why do this now, off late we have seen quite a few > changes that touched the "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c" file but were > not directed to me, someone else made me aware of those changes. Many people don't use get_maintainer > It > could be that my use of different SOB lines "Alok N Kataria" vs "Alok > Kataria" confuses get_maintainer.pl, That shouldn't be a problem unless the email addresses are also different. > +++ linux-2.6/MAINTAINERS 2013-09-04 14:20:39.714026943 +0530 [] > +VMWARE HYPERVISOR INTERFACE > +M: Alok Kataria <akata...@vmware.com> > +L: virtualizat...@lists.linux-foundation.org > +S: Supported > +F: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c > + It'd be nicer to use tabs after the colon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/