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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:22:13 +0200
From: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:04:26 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 10:53 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:42:47AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > As the coverage of file patterns in MAINTAINERS is
> > > now pretty good, the --git results are less useful.
> > It's pretty good for subsystems and PC drivers but for embedded stuff it
> > is much more patchy and fairly unlikely to find someone who actually
> > knows about the specific hardware.
> 
> Especially not so good for ARM stuff.
> 
> It'd be great if the ARM/embedded folk would spend
> some effort improving the MAINTAINERS file pattern
> coverage.

hm.. not likely to happen.

> One possible improvement that get_maintainers could
> add is to [optionally] CC the author of the first
> commit when there's no listed maintainer.
> 

I don't think the first commit has any special significance 
in general.