From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Hans J. Koch entries
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:08:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1371784123.19215.10.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130621025031.GG4775@local>
On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 04:50 +0200, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> Does each little driver really need a MAINTAINERS entry?
Hi Hans.
I think a lot of those driver MAINTAINERS entries are
maybe a little useful when the driver is just written
but are progressively less useful after a few months.
I once wrote a little script to look at whether or not
each listed maintainer had signed-off on a patch to
a listed file block for whatever time frame.
Most had not.
I'd rather people put their names in CREDITS than
MAINTAINERS if they want posterity entries.
> In my opinion, it should only be there if it is clear
> that it's not just a short project work.
I mostly agree with that, but sometimes it's useful
when the implementation is a bit complex and the
original author may still have some memory of the
complexity.
Anyway, I'm not resubmitting that patch. If you want
to remove yourself from whatever entry, please do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-21 3:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-23 14:01 [RFC PATCH 1/2] uio: Use Use of_match_ptr() macro in uio_pdrv_genirq.c Michal Simek
2013-05-23 14:01 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] uio: Add two platform uio drivers to one Michal Simek
2013-05-29 11:28 ` Michal Simek
2013-06-03 12:34 ` Michal Simek
2013-06-03 21:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-12 5:43 ` Michal Simek
2013-06-20 16:01 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-20 16:20 ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Hans J. Koch entries Joe Perches
2013-06-20 16:30 ` [lm-sensors] " Guenter Roeck
2013-06-20 17:09 ` Joe Perches
2013-06-21 2:50 ` Hans J. Koch
2013-06-21 3:08 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2013-06-21 7:47 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
2013-06-21 9:15 ` Michal Simek
2013-06-20 17:11 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] uio: Add two platform uio drivers to one Michal Simek
2013-06-20 23:13 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-21 9:06 ` Michal Simek
2013-06-10 8:59 ` Michal Simek
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