Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S974342AbXHMR7D (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:59:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S939858AbXHMRqN (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:46:13 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:56683 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S939713AbXHMRqJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:46:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl From: Arjan van de Ven To: Mariusz Kozlowski Cc: Joe Perches , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <200708131933.10125.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> References: <1186984174.10249.7.camel@localhost> <200708131933.10125.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:42:35 -0700 Message-Id: <1187026955.2688.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.11.6.1 (2.11.6.1-1.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 24 On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 19:33 +0200, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > Hello, > > I don't recall discusion about this so here are my 3 cents: > > I like the idea. I don't actually. It shows a central MAINTAINERS file is the wrong approach; just that 500+ patches to the same file were needed shows that. The maintainer info should be in the source file itself! That's the only reasonable way to keep it updated; now I'm all for having it machine parsable so that tools can use it, but it still really should be in the code itself, not in some central file that will always just go out of data, and will be a huge source of needless patch conflicts. - 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/