Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753327AbXHSMa2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:30:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751465AbXHSMaS (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:30:18 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:58161 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751064AbXHSMaR (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:30:17 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:22:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Joe Perches cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: tracking MAINTAINERS versus tracking SUBSYSTEMS In-Reply-To: <1187483578.4200.51.camel@localhost> Message-ID: References: <1187483578.4200.51.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1356 Lines: 34 On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 13:35 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > $ show_subsystem drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c > > BLUETOOTH > > "what's a subsystem"? I'm not sure there is an appropriate > definition. If there is an appropriate definition, why should anyone > care what subsystem a particular file is in? i'm confused -- i thought that was sort of the whole purpose of this exercise, to match parts of the kernel source tree against the maintainer for those parts, and to do that via the defined "subsystem" which is currently used in MAINTAINERS. you can, of course, banish the concept of a subsystem entirely and work purely from a file and directory perspective, but i think the notion of the kernel tree being composed of subsystems is a useful idea. that's just my opinion, though. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - 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/