From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757333AbZC3VSK (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:18:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756358AbZC3VRz (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:17:55 -0400 Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:33188 "EHLO acsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752056AbZC3VRy (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:17:54 -0400 Message-ID: <49D13646.5090000@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:14:46 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap Organization: Oracle Linux Engineering User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Joe Perches , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] MAINTAINERS - add script and patterns References: <1237331969-28565-1-git-send-email-joe@perches.com> <20090330135315.a05854da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090330135315.a05854da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt702.oracle.com [141.146.40.80] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.49D1366E.0211:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:19:21 -0700 > Joe Perches wrote: > >> Add a script to find the maintainer of an individual >> file or files in a patch and adds additional patterns >> to MAINTAINERS. >> >> Other information from MAINTAINERS sections can >> also be generated by file or patch. >> >> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches > > gack, this isn't working out very well. > > Is everyone OK with the concept and execution? We think this is ready > and desirable to merge? I'm for it. > I think I'd like this to sit in my tree for a while so I can have a > play with it - I'm a major customer! > > The two problematic patches are the ones which make largish changes to > the MAINTAINERS file, yes? One way to handle those is as a two-pass > thing: I merge and maintain it as much as I can, but as people make > additional changes and as the fixups get out of hand, the patch will > end up only being 90% complete. So we'll need to do a later second > pass to fix up the stragglers. > > Will that be OK? Will the tool still work OK is MAITNAINERS is a bit > wrong? > > Is the tool capable of detecting misformatted MAINTAINERS entries? If > so, that would help long-term maintenance a lot. > > I never have seen [patch 2/8] because the linux-foundation mail server > thinks it's spam. So if all the above looks OK then please resend > everything (yet again) to akpm@kernel.org. If/when the time comes I'll > send it on to torvalds@kernel.org. If that person is redirecting his > kernel.org email to linux-foundation.org then he presumably still > won't receive it. We'll work it out at that time ;) -- ~Randy