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.

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