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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:01:07 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
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Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:51:29PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> writes:
> 
> > The problem with such a database would be the same as with the 
> > MAINTAINERS file: The information becomes outdated, and someone has to 
> > maintain it.
> 
> Sure, I can easily grep .../linux-current/MAINTAINERS. But I think the
> whole problem is with people who don't have current sources.

No, even MAINTAINERS in the latest sources always contains outdated 
entries and lacks information.

If you think "no current sources" is a problem that should be solved, 
the solution would simply be a link to [1].

> Krzysztof Halasa

cu
Adrian

[1] http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=MAINTAINERS;hb=HEAD

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