Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl

Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-13T20:06:38Z

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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:21:10 +0200, Jan Engelhardt said:
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> On Aug 14 2007 00:02, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> >
> >Better solution is to have multiple MAINTAINERS files distributed in the
> >kernel tree, IMHO -- say a drivers/net/MAINTAINERS for maintainer info on
> >all various net drivers, drivers/kvm/MAINTAINERS for KVM maintainer info,
> >fs/ext3/MAINTAINERS for ext3 maintainers, fs/MAINTAINERS for generic VFS
> >maintainers info, so on and so forth. Of course, these individual
> >MAINTAINERS files could still have the newly-introduced "F:" fields as
> >well (drivers/net/MAINTAINERS would clearly require it, f.e.) ...
>
> Yes please.
>
> Or perhaps even putting the maintainer into the Kconfig files?

There's large swaths of code that don't have an obvious Kconfig entry
but do have a Maintainer entry - VFS, lots of kernel/*, and so on.

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