Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S969845AbXHMUGi (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:06:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760379AbXHMUGT (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:06:19 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:50355 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760047AbXHMUGR (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:06:17 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 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 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:21:10 +0200." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1187035553_3175P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:05:53 -0400 Message-ID: <25564.1187035553@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1490 Lines: 40 --==_Exmh_1187035553_3175P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:21:10 +0200, Jan Engelhardt said: > > 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? There's large swaths of code that don't have an obvious Kconfig entry but do have a Maintainer entry - VFS, lots of kernel/*, and so on. --==_Exmh_1187035553_3175P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFGwLmhcC3lWbTT17ARAi3wAJ4xVndc8WlXvvZE8CfB1BNGcglSZACgpgal dbTBZl3VIvUlOS/TRCsFD80= =YmEi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1187035553_3175P-- - 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/