Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:06:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
To: Jack Stone <jwjstone@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 54/56] x86: Remove void casts
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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Jack Stone wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Jack Stone <jwjstone@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>     
> >>> No, i mean, this approach should be changed, and i dont think any 
> >>> type cast change should go via any trivial tree. It's easy to mess 
> >>> it up. Please submit them to the maintainer trees
> >>>       
> >> Ok. I'll try and find appropriate CCs. I'm going out shortly so it 
> >> might take me a while.
> >>     
> >
> > Since you do many such patches it might make sense to script up a 
> > "who maintains what" kind of script - and share that script with 
> > lkml.
> >
> > I have this silly little script:
> >
> >   git log $@ | grep Signed-off-by: |
> >    cut -d: -f2 | cut -d\< -f1 |
> >     sort | uniq -c | sort -n
> >
> > To find out any recent parties that touches a particular file. But 
> > it would be nice to somehow automate the pickup of mailing-list 
> > addresses from MAINTAINERS for example. We've literally got hundreds 
> > of email lists there.
> >
> > It is not trivial to do though :-)
> >   
> It would be useful. The main problem is working out what files belong to
> what MAINTAINERS entries.
> 
> I'll see what I can cook up.

This can be helpful: http://lwn.net/Articles/284469/

It's a bit out of date, though, because git-blame seems to have 
disappeared as a command.

julia
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