MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC is a list of misc mm sources and also acts as
catch-all for the mm Documentation subdirectories. Documentation for
DAMON is well maintained within its own subsystem and also actively
updated, so there's no need to Cc all MISC maintainers for them as well.
Thus add exclusion entries for them.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
---
I'd love to have the time to check the DAMON documentation changes, but
it's simply not happening, so this will save some mail traffic for me,
if others agree.
---
 MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index f53047aa8d3c..cbe565b353d1 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -17269,6 +17269,8 @@ F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-cma
 F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa
 F:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/
 F:	Documentation/mm/
+X:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/
+X:	Documentation/mm/damon/
 F:	drivers/char/mem.c
 F:	include/linux/cma.h
 F:	include/linux/dmapool.h

---
base-commit: d6d3455d8751854e0d1820f14184682e23ac4475
change-id: 20261015-maint-mm-core-x-doc-damon-d2da56de5ee8

On Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:31:46 +0200 "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org> wrote:

> MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC is a list of misc mm sources and also acts as
> catch-all for the mm Documentation subdirectories. Documentation for
> DAMON is well maintained within its own subsystem and also actively
> updated, so there's no need to Cc all MISC maintainers for them as well.
> Thus add exclusion entries for them.

Makes sense and sounds right to me.  I was also feeling maybe I'm Cc-ing too
many people and considering doing this.  Thank you for this patch, Vlastimil.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>

Acked-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>

> ---
> I'd love to have the time to check the DAMON documentation changes, but
> it's simply not happening, so this will save some mail traffic for me,
> if others agree.

DAMON release newsletter [1] could be a lighter weight alternative :)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260830235014.64406-1-sj@kernel.org/


Thanks,
SJ

[...]

On 10/15/26 18:31, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC is a list of misc mm sources and also acts as
> catch-all for the mm Documentation subdirectories. Documentation for
> DAMON is well maintained within its own subsystem and also actively
> updated, so there's no need to Cc all MISC maintainers for them as well.
> Thus add exclusion entries for them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
> ---
> I'd love to have the time to check the DAMON documentation changes, but
> it's simply not happening, so this will save some mail traffic for me,
> if others agree.

Ah, that's why I was getting CCed on them :)

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

-- 
Cheers,

David

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 06:31:46PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC is a list of misc mm sources and also acts as
> catch-all for the mm Documentation subdirectories. Documentation for
> DAMON is well maintained within its own subsystem and also actively
> updated, so there's no need to Cc all MISC maintainers for them as well.
> Thus add exclusion entries for them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>

> ---
> I'd love to have the time to check the DAMON documentation changes, but
> it's simply not happening, so this will save some mail traffic for me,
> if others agree.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index f53047aa8d3c..cbe565b353d1 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -17269,6 +17269,8 @@ F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-cma
>  F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa
>  F:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/
>  F:	Documentation/mm/
> +X:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/
> +X:	Documentation/mm/damon/
>  F:	drivers/char/mem.c
>  F:	include/linux/cma.h
>  F:	include/linux/dmapool.h
> 
> ---
> base-commit: d6d3455d8751854e0d1820f14184682e23ac4475
> change-id: 20261015-maint-mm-core-x-doc-damon-d2da56de5ee8
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 06:31:46PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MISC is a list of misc mm sources and also acts as
> catch-all for the mm Documentation subdirectories. Documentation for
> DAMON is well maintained within its own subsystem and also actively
> updated, so there's no need to Cc all MISC maintainers for them as well.
> Thus add exclusion entries for them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>

> ---
> I'd love to have the time to check the DAMON documentation changes, but
> it's simply not happening, so this will save some mail traffic for me,
> if others agree.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index f53047aa8d3c..cbe565b353d1 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -17269,6 +17269,8 @@ F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-cma
>  F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa
>  F:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/
>  F:	Documentation/mm/
> +X:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/
> +X:	Documentation/mm/damon/

TIL about the X: tag :)

>  F:	drivers/char/mem.c
>  F:	include/linux/cma.h
>  F:	include/linux/dmapool.h
>
> ---
> base-commit: d6d3455d8751854e0d1820f14184682e23ac4475
> change-id: 20261015-maint-mm-core-x-doc-damon-d2da56de5ee8
>

--
Cheers, Lorenzo