Re: [PATCH]Add Maintainer for MAINTAINERS file for us

[Harry Wei <jiaweiwei.xiyou@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 08:11:27PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 10:50 +0800, Harry Wei wrote:
> > I'd like to maintain this file for us. The patch is below.
> 
> Knock yourself out, but I think this won't
> be too valuable.
The patch has been updatated below.
> 
> I suggest you setup a git tree and create a
> separate MAINTAINERS section entry and not use
> the existing DOCUMENTATION section entry.
> 
> Part of handling MAINTAINERS is understanding
> that any tree where you collect entries will
> not be authoritative.  Lots of other MAINTAINERS
> updates will occur outside of your tree and
> nothing you do should hinder these updates.
> 
> One idea could be to separate all MAINTAINERS
> sections into separate files in perhaps
> a Maintainers directory.  You would not ever
> have to alphabetize sections again.
This may a little complex. Keeping just MAINTAINERS file
with alphabetical order is well for us.
I will also write a shell script for MAINTAINERS, which
can not only check whether it is in alphabetical order
but may also take orders for us.
The script is been programing by me and my friend.
When it is okay, i will patch for kernel.
> 
> Maybe add a little script to the Makefile to
> aggregate them together as well.
> 
> Another would be to add a '*...' pattern type
> to the files to match files in any directory
> or add a new filename only pattern akin to
> 'find -name "pattern"' rather than specify both
> the directory and file together.
> 
> Update scripts/get_maintainer.pl too if you
> add some new file pattern types please.

Signed-off-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index af39897..629dd7c 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4043,6 +4043,12 @@ S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/net/macvlan.c
 F:	include/linux/if_macvlan.h
 
+MAINTAINERS-FILE
+M:	Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+L:	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
+S:	Maintained
+F:	MAINTAINERS
+
 MAN-PAGES: MANUAL PAGES FOR LINUX -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
 M:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 W:	http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages
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