Re: [PATCH v5 06/24] Update MAINTAINERS and CREDITS files with amdkfd info

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 11:01 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 08:37:27PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> >  CREDITS     |  7 +++++++
> >  MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 
> Given the wide variety of folks who patch CREDITS and MAINTAINERS, might
> I suggest adding CREDITS and MAINTAINERS themselves to the MAINTAINERS
> file (perhaps in the same entry as get_maintainer.pl), so that
> get_maintainer.pl does not fall back to git history for them?

Thanks but:

There is no MAINTAINERS/CREDITS maintainer.

I'm not volunteering.  Maybe you?

But maybe something like this would help:

It has to have both an M: and an S: entry
with maintained or supported to stop get_maintainers
from doing a git history lookup.

---

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 0662378..584fd69 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5881,6 +5881,12 @@ F:	drivers/mailbox/
 F:	include/linux/mailbox_client.h
 F:	include/linux/mailbox_controller.h
 
+MAINTAINERS/CREDITS
+M:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
+S:	Maintained
+F:	MAINTAINERS
+F:	CREDITS
+
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