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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:14:37 -0700
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] unchecked request_region's in drivers/net
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On Dec 28, 2001  00:51 +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > common directories like drivers/net/foo.c.  In the top-level MAINTAINER
> > file would only be something like "Marcello Tosatti" to cover the
> > entire tree, and e.g. "David Miller" in the net/MAINTAINER, "Al Viro" in
> > the fs/MAINTAINER, "Stephen Tweedie" in fs/ext3/MAINTAINER, etc.
> 
> Indeed, this solves the keeping the list up to date with whats
> in the tree, and has provision for arbitary numbers of METOO:
> fields (Though that could get messy, whats to stop Linus getting bombed
> with a zillion additions from people who just want to get their
> name in a kernel tarball for free). One way could be approval from
> the actual maintainer "Yes, he's sent lots of patches, add him to
> METOO:".

I'd rather avoid having Linus become a human mailing-list administrator.

Rather, the "METOO" section would be handled by just adding a mailing
list address in the relevant MAINTAINER file.  The above examples would
be covered by linux-kernel, linux-net, linux-fsdevel, and ext2-devel.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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