Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove linux-edac

Hi Boris,

On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 08:25:29 -0700
Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 12:21:54PM -0700, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 09:27:32AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:  
> > > > Why is this thread CCing linux-edac?
> > > > 
> > > > I don't see any relation here...  
> > > 
> > > The linux-edac list was recently added to the QEMU MAINTAINERS
> > > file:
> > > 
> > >   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/4c5e70b9a42744401fc10b17cc61820586ba4a13
> > > 
> > > and the entry matches the qapi/acpi-hest.json file that John has
> > > modified, so gets auto-CC'd.
> > > 
> > > Admittedly the content in this series is not especially relevant
> > > to the liunux-edac list in this case, but the patch submission
> > > tools are just following the declared MAINTAINERS file entry.  
> > 
> > Thanks for letting me know.
> > 
> > @Mauro, please remove a linux-kernel mailing list from being CCed with qemu
> > patches. This is only going to cause a huuuge confusion as it is already
> > showing.

I was in vacations, so I only noticed this patch today.

We use linux-edac for userspace at least since Rasdaemon beginning,
so it was never a kernel-only ML. What happened in practice on the
recent times is that rasdaemon patches are usually pushed as PR
requests at github. Yet, still today, it is recommended to also
submit them to linux-edac ML:

	https://github.com/mchehab/rasdaemon#submitting-patches

Yet, I agree that having a separate ML for userspace RAS tools
makes sense. I'll check on a separate thread if we can create
one such list at vger.

> > 
> > Please do a separate list only for qemu RAS stuff. 

Instead of adding a patch removing it, better to wait for the ML 
creation and then apply a QEMU patch changing it, and another one
to rasdaemon.

Regards,
Mauro

> 
> ---
> 
> From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 08:19:53 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove linux-edac
> 
> The commit
> 
>   4c5e70b9a427 ("MAINTAINERS: update HEST maintainership entries")
> 
> added a linux kernel mailing list (linux-edac) which gets CCed
> automatically with qemu patches. This is absolutely confusing and it
> should not happen. Qemu should have its own ras mailing list where stuff
> like that goes.
> 
> Drop that list.
> 
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
> Cc: Markus Armbruster <[email protected]>
> Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <[email protected]>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 97dcc78ded61..3664c0d67677 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -2274,7 +2274,6 @@ F: docs/devel/testing/acpi-bits.rst
>  
>  ACPI/HEST/GHES
>  M: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
> -L: [email protected]
>  L: [email protected]
>  S: Maintained
>  F: hw/acpi/ghes.c



Thanks,
Mauro