Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S974590AbXHMSwk (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:52:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S974449AbXHMSlI (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:41:08 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:56632 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S972932AbXHMSlH (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:41:07 -0400 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski , Joe Perches , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl References: <1186984174.10249.7.camel@localhost> <200708131933.10125.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> <1187026955.2688.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:41:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1187026955.2688.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (Arjan van de Ven's message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:42:35 -0700") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 598 Lines: 15 Arjan van de Ven writes: > The maintainer info should be in the source file itself! Nope, it should be outside of the (downloadable) tarball, because once someone get a tarball you can't update the data in it. This is fine WRT source (which is static given a version) but doesn't work for fast-changing data. -- Krzysztof Halasa - 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/