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SubjectRe: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default
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On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 00:25 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > Another option would be to add another pattern to the
> > I2C section that matches all subdirectories of drivers/i2c/:
> > ---
> > MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index fb7d2e4..c670e1f 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -5104,6 +5104,7 @@ S: Maintained
> > F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/
> > F: Documentation/i2c/
> > F: drivers/i2c/
> > +F: drivers/i2c/*/
>
> Hmm, what would be the drawback of extending the meaning of
> 'drivers/i2c/' to include 'drivers/i2c/*/'? To be honest, I assumed it
> works this way already and I'd think I am not alone with that
> assumption.

Some top level directories contain other subsystems.

A maintainer of something like arch/arm doesn't generally
want to be the maintainer of arch/arm/mach-<foo>

You _want_ a wider number of reviewers for patches to any
of those unmaintained subsystems.



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