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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>,
	Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:14:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1445991280.2757.69.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151028000535.GC1572@katana>

On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 01:05 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > 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-<foo>
> > 
> > You _want_ a wider number of reviewers for patches to any
> > of those unmaintained subsystems.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> +F:	drivers/i2c/*/
> 
> makes sense then.

The listing does become a bit unwieldy when there are
multiple sublevel directories.

It'd probably be nicer syntax to have some ... type
marking, but the number of cases just isn't very high
and most likely not worth the effort to me.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-28  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-26 22:11 [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-26 23:00 ` Laura Abbott
2015-10-27  0:08   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-27  2:47     ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-10-27  4:57       ` joe
2015-10-27  5:03         ` Laura Abbott
2015-10-27  8:21         ` Lee Jones
2015-10-27  9:24           ` Wolfram Sang
2015-10-27 10:10             ` Lee Jones
2015-10-27 10:29               ` Wolfram Sang
2015-10-27 17:49                 ` Joe Perches
2015-10-27 18:21                   ` Joe Perches
2015-10-27 23:25                     ` Wolfram Sang
2015-10-27 23:37                       ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28  0:05                         ` Wolfram Sang
2015-10-28  0:14                           ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-10-28  8:50                           ` Lee Jones
2015-10-27 17:53           ` Joe Perches
2015-10-27 18:09             ` Lee Jones
2015-10-27 19:24               ` Javier Martinez Canillas

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