Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753843Ab3GWBIl (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:08:41 -0400 Received: from szxga02-in.huawei.com ([119.145.14.65]:14023 "EHLO szxga02-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753320Ab3GWBIj (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:08:39 -0400 Message-ID: <51EDD76B.5050407@huawei.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:07:55 +0800 From: Li Zefan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sarah Sharp CC: Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Guenter Roeck , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Steven Rostedt , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable , Darren Hart , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: mistakes in code vs. maintainer flow mistakes References: <20130715180403.GD15531@xanatos> <20130715184642.GE15531@xanatos> <20130715195316.GF15531@xanatos> <20130715204135.GH15531@xanatos> <20130718103907.GC23558@gmail.com> <20130718160754.GC5440@xanatos> <20130719092256.GC25784@gmail.com> <20130719190127.GA12990@xanatos> In-Reply-To: <20130719190127.GA12990@xanatos> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.135.68.215] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1093 Lines: 35 > Perhaps what might help here is a kernel organizational chart. A graph > of who sends pull requests to Linus, and their subsystem maintainers. > For example, in the USB "branch" there would be: > > Linus Torvalds > (Linux kernel release engineer) > | > | > Greg Kroah-Hartman > (USB) > | > | > ------------------------------------------------- > | | | | > | | | | > Sarah Sharp | | Oliver Neukum > (USB3 and USB core) | | (USB NCM and auto-suspend) > | | > Alan Stern | > (EHCI/UHCI/OHCI and USB core) | > | > | > Felipe Balbi > (USB3 plat and USB gadget) > Nice chart, exccept that the complete chart will in no doubt break 80 characters limit. Actually as the hierarchy is quite flat, I can't image how long the longest line will be. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/