Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751465AbXAOUTM (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:19:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751464AbXAOUTL (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:19:11 -0500 Received: from gepetto.dc.ltu.se ([130.240.42.40]:34301 "EHLO gepetto.dc.ltu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751468AbXAOUTK (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:19:10 -0500 Message-ID: <45ABE23B.6010405@student.ltu.se> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:21:15 +0100 From: Richard Knutsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Schniedermeyer CC: Stefan Richter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s) References: <45A9092F.7060503@student.ltu.se> <45A93B02.7040301@citd.de> <45A96E31.3080307@student.ltu.se> <45A973A8.1000101@citd.de> <45AAA3C2.80603@student.ltu.se> <45AAC44D.808@citd.de> <45ABC17D.3050105@student.ltu.se> <45ABDE79.7050706@citd.de> In-Reply-To: <45ABDE79.7050706@citd.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3286 Lines: 92 Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > Richard Knutsson wrote: > >> Stefan Richter wrote: >> >> >>> On 15 Jan, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Stefan Richter wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> (Really liked the idea to have a "Maintainer"-button next to "Help" >>>>>> in *config) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Rhetorical question: What will this button be used for? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Having "all(tm)" information of something in one place? >>>> >>>> >>> Or, "click here to say 'it does not work'"? >>> >>> My rhetorical question wasn't about what it is intended for, but what >>> people would think it was intended for if it was there. >>> >>> >>> >> I think it could be practical to have an easy access to whom is >> responsible for a driver and which mailinglist its development is >> addressed to, both for people interested in helping develop the driver >> and those who got an error (or fan-mail :). >> >> >>>> I think adding the Maintainers-data is more or less a logical next step. >>>> >>>> It's not always clear from the MAINTAINERS-file who is the right person >>>> for what. Especially as it is a rather large text-file with only >>>> mediocre search-friendlieness. It's a 3.5 K-lines file! >>>> >>>> So when you know that you have a problem with drivers X, wouldn't it be >>>> great if you could just "go to" the driver in *config and see not only >>>> the Help-Text but the Maintainers-Data also. >>>> >>>> >>> Seems more like what you actually want to have there is links to users' >>> mailinglists or forums. >>> >>> When this thread started, it was about assisting authors in submitting >>> patches. >>> >>> >>> >> Yes, this is a bit out of scope, but just realized a simple way to >> implement it if using the CONFIG_FLAG-approach, just "grep" after the >> flag, under which the user hit the "Maintainer"-button, in the >> MAINTAINER-file. Also, I think this solves the handler-problem since an >> entry can have multiple CONFIG_FLAG's stated. >> >> I don't think we should add the maintainer-entries directly in Kconfig, >> as you Stefan stated, because it is for configure the kernel. With the >> above approach, it will just require minor fixes in the "make *config" >> to handle it. >> > > But how do you suppose the user gets the CONFIG_-String, which the user > then could for searching? > > I'd say only a small percentage of hardcore-users would use the > .config-file directly, the others would deviate over *config, so i'd say > if the MAINTAINERS-data is integrated into Kconfig it's the perfect(tm) > 90% solution. > > OTOH you could just teach the *config to lookup a MAINTAINERS-entry when > all they are properly flagged. > Oh no, did'n mean like that. All entries in the Kconfig has a "config CONFIG_FLAG" (of course ;) ) and so *config "knows" which flag to search for (if added to MAINTAINERS, that is). - 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/