Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751438AbaKIDuX (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2014 22:50:23 -0500 Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]:60431 "EHLO relay3-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751281AbaKIDuW (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2014 22:50:22 -0500 X-Originating-IP: 50.43.41.112 Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 19:50:06 -0800 From: Josh Triplett To: Joe Perches Cc: Oded Gabbay , David Airlie , Alex Deucher , Jerome Glisse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, John Bridgman , Andrew Morton , Jingoo Han , Geert Uytterhoeven , David Rientjes , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Sebastian Reichel , Michael Opdenacker , "David S. Miller" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Antti Palosaari Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/24] Update MAINTAINERS and CREDITS files with amdkfd info Message-ID: <20141109035006.GE1026@thin> References: <1415471865-1893-1-git-send-email-oded.gabbay@amd.com> <1415471865-1893-7-git-send-email-oded.gabbay@amd.com> <20141108190125.GA2131@thin> <1415479769.23530.31.camel@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1415479769.23530.31.camel@perches.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 12:49:29PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 11:01 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 08:37:27PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote: > > > CREDITS | 7 +++++++ > > > MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++++++++ > > > 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) > > > > Given the wide variety of folks who patch CREDITS and MAINTAINERS, might > > I suggest adding CREDITS and MAINTAINERS themselves to the MAINTAINERS > > file (perhaps in the same entry as get_maintainer.pl), so that > > get_maintainer.pl does not fall back to git history for them? > > Thanks but: > > There is no MAINTAINERS/CREDITS maintainer. > > I'm not volunteering. Oh, I thought from all your work on file patterns and other such improvements that you were the de-facto MAINTAINERS maintainer. > Maybe you? No thank you. > But maybe something like this would help: > > It has to have both an M: and an S: entry > with maintained or supported to stop get_maintainers > from doing a git history lookup. > > --- > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 0662378..584fd69 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -5881,6 +5881,12 @@ F: drivers/mailbox/ > F: include/linux/mailbox_client.h > F: include/linux/mailbox_controller.h > > +MAINTAINERS/CREDITS > +M: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > +S: Maintained > +F: MAINTAINERS > +F: CREDITS Sending something only to LKML seems likely to go un-noticed. I think we need a better solution than this. - Josh Triplett -- 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/