Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 07:12:36 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jack Stone <jwjstone@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       jeff@garzik.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 54/56] x86: Remove void casts
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* Jack Stone <jwjstone@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > In theory we could put regex patterns into MAINTAINERS. Something 
> > like this:
> >
> > LOCKDEP AND LOCKSTAT
> > P:	Peter Zijlstra
> > M:	peterz@infradead.org
> > P:	Ingo Molnar
> > M:	mingo@redhat.com
> > L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > T:	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep.git
> > F:	kernel/lock*
> > F:	include/linux/lockdep.h
> > S:	Maintained
> >
> > Note: there are files that fall under multiple maintainers so this 
> > wouldnt be a 'precise' thing - but it would sure be useful.
> >
> > ( There's also other details like subdirectories within a larger 
> >   hiearchy and there being overlap between problems. Sometimes they 
> >   are sub-maintained, sometimes they are exclusive so pure glob
> >   patterns are probably not enough. )
> >
> > If this concept looks good to you ... i'd suggest that before you do 
> > a large patch against MAINTAINERS mapping all the maintainer 
> > domains, could you just do it for a few cases and send an RFC patch 
> > to lkml?
> >
> > If there's a general upstream buy-in and a there's a 
> > scripts/list-maintainers.sh script that takes advantage of it then 
> > all this would be rather useful. (and i've Cc:-ed Andrew and Linus - 
> > if this is to be shot down due to fundamental objections then better 
> > do it at the early stages ;-)
> >
> > Plus checkpatch could be extended to check whether the Cc: list in a 
> > patch properly matches the patterns in MAINTAINERS.
> >
> > If done propery this would save us from quite a few mechanic "hm, 
> > who maintains _that_ file??" searches and it would also save 
> > maintainers from quite a few "hm, who queued up _that_ crap without 
> > Cc:-ing me??" moments.
> > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> >   
> That has already been done. Someone just so happened to submit
> such a patch today.
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123916809504492&w=2

Ah, nice! I'll have a look.

	Ingo
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