Re: [PATCH 0/10] MAINTAINERS - script, patterns, and misc fixes

Pavel Machek
2009-01-14T09:31:04Z

On Tue 2009-01-13 12:54:35, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:28:08 -0800
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> > This patchset adds a script to find the maintainer
> > of an individual file or files in a patch and
> > additional patterns to MAINTAINERS.
> >
> > Other information from MAINTAINERS sections can
> > also be generated by file or patch.
>
> I applaud the intent.
>
> This patchset is basically unmergeable by anyone except Linus - it
> already gets three rejects against half-hour-old mainline.

Linus, can you take it, pretty please?

MAINTAINERS file is currently pretty much unusable... because
subsystem names are not what people expect them to be. Paths really
help there, because if you hack the code, you already know them.

Pavel
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