Re: mistakes in code vs. maintainer flow mistakes

Li Zefan
2013-07-23T01:07:55Z

> Perhaps what might help here is a kernel organizational chart. A graph
> of who sends pull requests to Linus, and their subsystem maintainers.
> For example, in the USB "branch" there would be:
>
> Linus Torvalds
> (Linux kernel release engineer)
> |
> |
> Greg Kroah-Hartman
> (USB)
> |
> |
> -------------------------------------------------
> | | | |
> | | | |
> Sarah Sharp | | Oliver Neukum
> (USB3 and USB core) | | (USB NCM and auto-suspend)
> | |
> Alan Stern |
> (EHCI/UHCI/OHCI and USB core) |
> |
> |
> Felipe Balbi
> (USB3 plat and USB gadget)
>

Nice chart, exccept that the complete chart will in no doubt break 80
characters limit. Actually as the hierarchy is quite flat, I can't
image how long the longest line will be.