Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934931AbXHNBX2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:23:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762895AbXHNBXQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:23:16 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:60070 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762542AbXHNBXP (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:23:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl From: Arjan van de Ven To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski , Joe Perches , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <1187037445.6628.98.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <1186984174.10249.7.camel@localhost> <200708131933.10125.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> <1187026955.2688.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1187037445.6628.98.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:19:26 -0700 Message-Id: <1187054366.2757.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.11.6.1 (2.11.6.1-1.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1291 Lines: 28 On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 16:37 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 10:42 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > The maintainer info should be in the source file itself! That's the only > > reasonable way to keep it updated; now I'm all for having it machine > > parsable so that tools can use it, but it still really should be in the > > code itself, not in some central file that will always just go out of > > data, and will be a huge source of needless patch conflicts. > > If the problem is to do with people failing to update the MAINTAINERS > file, why would moving the same data into 20 or 30 source files motivate > them to keep it up to date? As far as I can see, that would just serve > to multiply the amount of stale data... if each .c file has a MODULE_MAINTAINER() tag... people tend to update .c files a lot better than way off-the-side other files. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - 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/