From nobody Wed Jul 1 18:50:59 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1B5C433FE for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:45:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S241874AbhLPVpO (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:45:14 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33002 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S242246AbhLPVoc (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:44:32 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04F6DC061B38 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:43:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:In-Reply-To:References; bh=cw4xTspNzk37jZto/nd6zWgK67TtjV1uKtv91TG1+gg=; b=qQ9mC0ZF2w3cc3B2vjjeCGT3cC CdBjjxhZaIGd/sajCsQRMu8ordDXZB8xfv43n1pyyL1FOfJP/le2wy5UtYDDuGo/+TsJCvQrLUnJ5 OEiPO5cots/k3x6XcFXrVi+AAlhjD1JWbxHR5cCxQvGc5g3/jcsuQORu+nfeXiEl5LRkZqyJieKdQ q+IVXabNKzZiDx2SwLXu8ovD9nmOfU5+v0ogxQ8N+lEB+mhvxLOiYk/upPE/DDsUBZ4UJLbMMWPlF KdUAc4/ZhvorBEKBHyA00/DevpCHTE/h/tE0fQBAyhMzhrdOzgvdGSJtqcfGL4TOaSrBlDn1I8PPi GvKMGXMQ==; Received: from willy by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1mxyX5-00Fz5o-Aj; Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:43:23 +0000 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:43:23 +0000 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC] Add a 'tag' field to MAINTAINERS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" People find it hard to use the right tag when sending patches which affect a maintainer that they don't interact with often. If we add a field to MAINTAINERS, perhaps a tool will be written some day that automatically adds it to patches. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 0a1410d5a621..c6358fa58fed 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Descriptions of section entries: R: Designated reviewer: FullName These reviewers should be CCed on patches. L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area + J: Prefix to use when sending a patch W: Web-page with status/info B: URI for where to file bugs. A web-page with detailed bug filing info, a direct bug tracker link, or a mailto: URI. @@ -2667,6 +2668,7 @@ F: drivers/leds/leds-blinkm.c BLOCK LAYER M: Jens Axboe L: linux-block@vger.kernel.org +J: block T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git S: Maintained F: block/ @@ -14927,6 +14929,7 @@ M: Pawel Osciak M: Marek Szyprowski M: Kyungmin Park L: linux-media@vger.kernel.org +J: videobuf S: Maintained F: drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-* F: include/media/videobuf2-*