Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

Jonathan Morton
2001-04-22T01:00:59Z

>> Find . -name "*Some-Name*" -type f -print | xargs grep 'Some-Info'
>> Hate answering with just one line of credible info , But .
>
>The above would grep every file. It takes 1 minute and 9.5 seconds.
>So the distributed maintainer information does not scale well at all.

No it doesn't. It allows you to search for files of a specific naming
pattern and greps those. So if you needed to know the maintainers of all
the config.in files, you say:

find . -name "*onfig.in" -type f -print | xargs grep 'P: '

If you need to know the maintainer(s) of a specific file or directory of
files, simply direct your search there. The only problem occurs when you
really don't know where to look - so then you search the entire kernel for
the configuration option, and look wherever you find that.

I really don't see the problem.

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