Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S940419AbXHNCHs (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:07:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754595AbXHNCHZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:07:25 -0400 Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:3392 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762412AbXHNCHW (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:07:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:48:53 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Trond Myklebust , 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 Message-ID: <20070814014853.GA3872@tuxdriver.com> 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> <1187054366.2757.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1187054366.2757.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 982 Lines: 27 On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 06:19:26PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 16:37 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > 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. I think this approach makes a lot more sense than adding a bunch of data to MAINTAINERS all for a tool that I'll wager few people would ever use. John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com - 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/