Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753641AbYJANep (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:34:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753097AbYJANef (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:34:35 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:34518 "EHLO gprs189-60.eurotel.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752681AbYJANed (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:34:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:36:08 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Joe Perches , "H. Peter Anvin" , Pekka Enberg , Ben Dooks , Uwe Kleine-K?nig , Denis Vlasenko , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #3) Message-ID: <20081001133607.GA3714@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200202071054.g17Asst06608@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20080922081239.GA28726@strlen.de> <20080922091256.GH1916@fluff.org.uk> <84144f020809220223jbb71877ued9d3b2569c4cd67@mail.gmail.com> <48D7CA62.1020805@zytor.com> <20080929175625.GA3676@ucw.cz> <20080930171058.9e5f48d0.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <1222819790.29215.126.camel@localhost> <20080930173512.c221ade7.rdunlap@xenotime.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080930173512.c221ade7.rdunlap@xenotime.net> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2373 Lines: 68 On Tue 2008-09-30 17:35:12, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:09:50 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 17:10 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:56:25 +0200 Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Yes please. Manually searching MAINTAINERS is boring and hard... 'Is > > > > it NETWORK BLOCK DEVICE' or 'NBD'? 'ALSA' or 'ADVANCED LINUX SOUND > > > > SYSTEM'? ... plus if you want subsystem maintainer, search tends to > > > > give you about 179 individual driver maintainers, first. > > > Well.... both the acronym and long name should be listed IMO. > > > Especially the acronym/short name. > > > > Human based visual searches are error prone. > > > > There really does need to be some systematic and automated > > mechanism to find the maintainers for a particular file. > > > > Maintainer file patterns, either centralized in MAINTAINERS > > or distributed in some mechanism in the file system or git > > are useful. > > > > Linus' original point about "hotness" of MAINTAINERS being > > an issue was later refuted by Linus. > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/414 > > I just don't think that it's a big problem like you and Pavel seem to. > IOW I'll just disagree. Quickly, check who's maintainer of ALSA. ...shall we add rule that subsystems will have "subsystem" in the name so that search does not list all the drivers, first? Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 3596d17..7345707 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -3825,7 +3825,7 @@ L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org W: http://tifmxx.berlios.de/ S: Maintained -SOUND +SOUND SUBSYSTEM (ADVANCED LINUX SOUND SYSTEM, ALSA) P: Jaroslav Kysela M: perex@perex.cz L: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org (subscribers-only) @@ -3855,7 +3855,7 @@ L: cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org W: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/ S: Supported -STABLE BRANCH: +STABLE BRANCH P: Greg Kroah-Hartman M: greg@kroah.com P: Chris Wright -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/