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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>:
> I'll grant you that it does solve the "who owns a CONFIG_ symbol", but
> that is only one small problem - there's the bigger problem as to who
> owns each line of code.  Are we going to start labelling each source
> code line as well?

Per-file or per-directory should suffice, I think.
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