Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: > On 2018-11-25 21:50, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >> The list is always selected by the 'All patches CC here' section. >> >> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> >> --- >> MAINTAINERS | 13 ------------- >> 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS >> index c616861ca3..9d6dae71ff 100644 >> --- a/MAINTAINERS >> +++ b/MAINTAINERS >> @@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ L: qemu-s3...@nongnu.org >> Guest CPU cores (TCG): >> ---------------------- >> Overall >> -L: qemu-devel@nongnu.org >> M: Peter Crosthwaite <crosthwaite.pe...@gmail.com> >> M: Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> >> R: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> >> @@ -403,30 +402,25 @@ Hosts: >> ------ >> >> LINUX >> -L: qemu-devel@nongnu.org >> S: Maintained >> F: linux-* >> F: linux-headers/ >> >> POSIX >> -L: qemu-devel@nongnu.org >> S: Maintained >> F: *posix* > > I agree that we can remove the "L: qemu-devel" entries everywhere, but > for these subsystems that have no "M:" entry, but "S: Maintained", this > now looks somewhat strange - the subsystem is "Maintained" but has no > maintainer? I think we need somebody who feels responsible to pick up > patches here...?
It looks strange because it *is* strange. If we take the definition of S: in MAINTAINERS seriously, we need to appoint a maintainer (a person, not a mailing list), or downgrade to S: Orphan.