* Jack Stone <jwjstone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Ah, nice! I'll have a look. Ingo -- 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
