From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] MAINTAINERS - script, patterns, and misc fixes
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:30:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114093005.GD7717@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090113125435.4821123a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue 2009-01-13 12:54:35, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:28:08 -0800
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> > This patchset adds a script to find the maintainer
> > of an individual file or files in a patch and
> > additional patterns to MAINTAINERS.
> >
> > Other information from MAINTAINERS sections can
> > also be generated by file or patch.
>
> I applaud the intent.
>
> This patchset is basically unmergeable by anyone except Linus - it
> already gets three rejects against half-hour-old mainline.
Linus, can you take it, pretty please?
MAINTAINERS file is currently pretty much unusable... because
subsystem names are not what people expect them to be. Paths really
help there, because if you hack the code, you already know them.
Pavel
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-13 20:28 [PATCH 0/10] MAINTAINERS - script, patterns, and misc fixes Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 01/10] Add scripts/get_maintainer.pl Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 02/10] MAINTAINERS - Add file patterns Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 03/10] MAINTAINERS - Standardize style Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 04/10] MAINTAINERS - Remove CS4280 Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 05/10] MAINTAINERS - Remove HP Fibre Channel HBA no longer in tree Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 06/10] MAINTAINERS - standardize "T: git urls" Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 07/10] MAINTAINERS - Add Linus Torvalds' git Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 08/10] MAINTAINERS - Add FTRACE git Joe Perches
2009-01-14 5:59 ` Paul Mundt
2009-01-14 6:19 ` Joe Perches
2009-01-14 13:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-14 13:35 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-01-14 22:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 09/10] MAINTAINERS - i2c_tiny_usb T: should be W: Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 10/10] MAINTAINERS - Update FPU Emulator contact address and web page Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:54 ` [PATCH 0/10] MAINTAINERS - script, patterns, and misc fixes Andrew Morton
2009-01-14 3:49 ` Joe Perches
2009-01-14 4:26 ` Joe Perches
2009-01-14 7:13 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-14 7:21 ` Joe Perches
2009-01-14 19:37 ` Joe Perches
2009-01-14 19:55 ` Joe Perches
2009-01-14 9:30 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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