From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754497AbbJ0Xhg (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:37:36 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0234.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.234]:42467 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751475AbbJ0Xhf (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:37:35 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:960:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2559:2562:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3872:3873:3874:4321:5007:6261:6691:7901:10004:10400:10848:11232:11657:11658:11914:12043:12517:12519:12555:12663:12740:13069:13076:13311:13357:14096:14097:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: bat54_7aea7866c705 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2304 Message-ID: <1445989051.2757.65.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default From: Joe Perches To: Wolfram Sang Cc: Lee Jones , "Theodore Ts'o" , Javier Martinez Canillas , Laura Abbott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:37:31 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20151027232526.GA1572@katana> References: <562EB07B.9040501@redhat.com> <562EC06C.5010404@osg.samsung.com> <20151027024729.GC16244@thunk.org> <20151027082150.GQ597@x1> <20151027092411.GA3405@katana> <20151027101022.GA5828@x1> <20151027102950.GB3405@katana> <1445968175.2757.14.camel@perches.com> <1445970099.2757.22.camel@perches.com> <20151027232526.GA1572@katana> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 00:25 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > Another option would be to add another pattern to the > > I2C section that matches all subdirectories of drivers/i2c/: > > --- > > MAINTAINERS | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > index fb7d2e4..c670e1f 100644 > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > @@ -5104,6 +5104,7 @@ S: Maintained > > F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/ > > F: Documentation/i2c/ > > F: drivers/i2c/ > > +F: drivers/i2c/*/ > > Hmm, what would be the drawback of extending the meaning of > 'drivers/i2c/' to include 'drivers/i2c/*/'? To be honest, I assumed it > works this way already and I'd think I am not alone with that > assumption. Some top level directories contain other subsystems. A maintainer of something like arch/arm doesn't generally want to be the maintainer of arch/arm/mach- You _want_ a wider number of reviewers for patches to any of those unmaintained subsystems.