From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754874Ab2I0GiO (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:38:14 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:55027 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754124Ab2I0GiK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:38:10 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,494,1344236400"; d="scan'208";a="197782538" Message-ID: <1348727884.13371.155.camel@smile> Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] MAINTAINERS: add recently created files to dw_dmac section From: Andy Shevchenko To: viresh kumar Cc: Vinod Koul , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joe Perches Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:38:04 +0300 In-Reply-To: References: <1348575190-11761-1-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <1348663237-3237-1-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <1348663237-3237-5-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Organization: Intel Finland Oy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.3-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 20:15 +0530, viresh kumar wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Andy Shevchenko > wrote: > > Append myself to mail subsection as well. > > Mail subsection? You are adding yourself as Maintainer of dw_dmac... Yes and odd, accordingly to documentation: "Descriptions of section entries: ... M: Mail patches to: FullName ... S: Status, one of the following: ... Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. ..." (subsection = section entry). The status is applied to the section, but person. We discussed this with Joe in previous messages. > Do you really want that. > I am asking this, because that's not the normal practice followed in kernel. In current design of the MAINTAINERS database I don't see other way to apply "watch for the changes to the specific driver" condition. > This isn't done until unless, somebody has done a MAJOR modification > to the driver. Define the "MAJOR" (rhetorical) :-) -- Andy Shevchenko Intel Finland Oy