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SubjectRe: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)
On 13 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote:
[...]
> SUPERCOOL ALPHA CARD
>
> P: Clark Kent
> M: superman@krypton.kr
> L: some@thing.com
> C: SUPER_A
> S: Maintained
> (C: for CONFIG. Any better idea?)
>
> then if someone changes a file who are built with CONFIG_SUPER_A, can
> easily backtrack it to the correct maintainer(s).
[...]
> My first idea was to use the pathway and define that directories above
> the specified (if not specified by another) would fall to the current
> maintainer. It would work, but requires that all pathways be specified
> at once, or a few maintainers with "short" pathways would get much of
> the patches (and it is not as correct/easy to maintain as looking for
> the CONFIG_flag).
>
>
> Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with
> this?).

- What about drivers which have no MAINTAINER entry but reside in a
subsystem with MAINTAINER entry?

- What if these drivers depend on two subsystems?

- Config options map to object files but do not map directly to source
files. Diffstats show source files.

Example: The sbp2 driver is an IEEE 1394 driver and a SCSI driver.
sbp2.o is enabled by CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2 which depends on
CONFIG_IEEE1394 and CONFIG_SCSI. sbp2.c resides in drivers/ieee1394/.
What is the algorithm to look up sbp2's maintainers?

Don't get me wrong though. Easier lookup of maintainers and mailinglists
sounds to me like a desirable feature, not just from the point of view
of submitters but also of maintainers.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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