Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S968486AbXHMTWY (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:22:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S944904AbXHMTVP (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:21:15 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:44113 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S943660AbXHMTVN (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:21:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:21:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Satyam Sharma cc: Arjan van de Ven , 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 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1186984174.10249.7.camel@localhost> <200708131933.10125.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> <1187026955.2688.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> 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: 882 Lines: 23 On Aug 14 2007 00:02, Satyam Sharma wrote: > >Better solution is to have multiple MAINTAINERS files distributed in the >kernel tree, IMHO -- say a drivers/net/MAINTAINERS for maintainer info on >all various net drivers, drivers/kvm/MAINTAINERS for KVM maintainer info, >fs/ext3/MAINTAINERS for ext3 maintainers, fs/MAINTAINERS for generic VFS >maintainers info, so on and so forth. Of course, these individual >MAINTAINERS files could still have the newly-introduced "F:" fields as >well (drivers/net/MAINTAINERS would clearly require it, f.e.) ... Yes please. Or perhaps even putting the maintainer into the Kconfig files? Jan -- - 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/