Ingo Molnar wrote: > In theory we could put regex patterns into MAINTAINERS. Something > like this: > > LOCKDEP AND LOCKSTAT > P: Peter Zijlstra > M: peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > P: Ingo Molnar > M: mingo@xxxxxxxxxx > L: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > T: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep.git > F: kernel/lock* > F: include/linux/lockdep.h > S: Maintained > > Note: there are files that fall under multiple maintainers so this > wouldnt be a 'precise' thing - but it would sure be useful. > > ( There's also other details like subdirectories within a larger > hiearchy and there being overlap between problems. Sometimes they > are sub-maintained, sometimes they are exclusive so pure glob > patterns are probably not enough. ) > > If this concept looks good to you ... i'd suggest that before you do > a large patch against MAINTAINERS mapping all the maintainer > domains, could you just do it for a few cases and send an RFC patch > to lkml? > > If there's a general upstream buy-in and a there's a > scripts/list-maintainers.sh script that takes advantage of it then > all this would be rather useful. (and i've Cc:-ed Andrew and Linus - > if this is to be shot down due to fundamental objections then better > do it at the early stages ;-) > > Plus checkpatch could be extended to check whether the Cc: list in a > patch properly matches the patterns in MAINTAINERS. > > If done propery this would save us from quite a few mechanic "hm, > who maintains _that_ file??" searches and it would also save > maintainers from quite a few "hm, who queued up _that_ crap without > Cc:-ing me??" moments. > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > That has already been done. Someone just so happened to submit such a patch today. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123916809504492&w=2 Thanks, Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
