Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:19:38 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, joe@perches.com,
       xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
       torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       jeremy@xensource.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [545/2many] MAINTAINERS - XEN HYPERVISOR INTERFACE
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* Randy Dunlap (randy.dunlap@oracle.com) wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:55:36 -0700 Chris Wright wrote:
> > * joe@perches.com (joe@perches.com) wrote:
> > > +F:	arch/i386/xen/
> > > +F:	drivers/*/xen-*front.c
> > > +F:	drivers/xen/
> > > +F:	include/asm-i386/xen/
> > > +F:	include/xen/
> > 
> > I think this data will easily become stale.  What is the point again?
> 
> Agreed.  But not everyone wants to or should have to use git,
> so what are the alternatives?

Between git (or gitweb), existing MAINTAINERS and a bit of common
sense (or extra sleuthing), I never perceived a significant problem.
Alternative could be to place info directly in source files.  If not
all of MAINTAINERS info, it could be a tag to reference the relevant
MAINTAINERS entry.

thanks,
-chris
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