Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933609AbXHMTzu (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:55:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761478AbXHMTzZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:55:25 -0400 Received: from gepetto.dc.ltu.se ([130.240.42.40]:45956 "EHLO gepetto.dc.ltu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762107AbXHMTzX (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:55:23 -0400 Message-ID: <46C0B6AB.5010908@student.ltu.se> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:53:15 +0200 From: Richard Knutsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Satyam Sharma , 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 References: <1186984174.10249.7.camel@localhost> <200708131933.10125.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> <1187026955.2688.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: 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: 1359 Lines: 33 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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? > > Hope I am not biting my ass now, but I believed this was suggested but the counter-argument were; is really a file/system made to configure the kernel related to the maintainer? I like the idea of ".maintainers" (or maybe even ".maintainer" now). It has also been suggested that the file should be at the lowest common pathway to avoid duplication. Downside is the added need to search for the file... Richard Knutsson - 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/