From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [PATCH] [545/2many] MAINTAINERS - XEN HYPERVISOR INTERFACE Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:21:58 +0200 Message-ID: <20070813202158.GH18945@stusta.de> References: <46bffcb5.o/KKCq3EZH4S47k3%joe@perches.com> <20070813185536.GH3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <20070813121005.af159d1d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070813191938.GI3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070813191938.GI3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Wright Cc: Randy Dunlap , joe@perches.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeremy@xensource.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:19:38PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > * Randy Dunlap (randy.dunlap@oracle.com) wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:55:36 -0700 Chris Wright wrote: > > > * joe@perches.com (joe@perches.com) wrote: > > > > +F: arch/i386/xen/ > > > > +F: drivers/*/xen-*front.c > > > > +F: drivers/xen/ > > > > +F: include/asm-i386/xen/ > > > > +F: include/xen/ > > > > > > I think this data will easily become stale. What is the point again? > > > > Agreed. But not everyone wants to or should have to use git, > > so what are the alternatives? > > Between git (or gitweb), existing MAINTAINERS and a bit of common > sense (or extra sleuthing), I never perceived a significant problem. For active kernel developers like you and me it's not a problem. But for other people it's non-trivial to always figure out who the maintainer of some part of the kernel is. > Alternative could be to place info directly in source files. If not > all of MAINTAINERS info, it could be a tag to reference the relevant > MAINTAINERS entry. Having the information in MAINTAINERS is what creates the least redundancies. > thanks, > -chris cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed