From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S942653AbXHMMpq (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:45:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S940957AbXHMHYa (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:24:30 -0400 Received: from smtp110.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.95]:29887 "HELO smtp110.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S940757AbXHMHY2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:24:28 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=G4S8DpvWdBUFz42+/CvlNXzzanFolQ/U56KUqmY23ULAO/r7p9HRdY0mMjYCXAl3AAmxHV4acXw30ON8nZLYf5b2oGYMbLGxXJu7Ol38xRPmnx6rdpYO+FTFStFdL/9fjtGN0RMqn8IsQp0SmMASDCEKoHXiC8btPhm37P2VrIo= ; X-YMail-OSG: hqzLng8VM1k5abMho0QWPmhduRV7zUp7d8rK6v.i1Mwif2oL.9vPoHAelGZd2k6bEHAQscB1kg-- From: David Brownell To: joe@perches.com Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] [497/2many] MAINTAINERS - USB HUB DRIVER Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:24:23 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johannes@erdfelt.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org References: <46bffc57.+VLVIUHqG3mGbW2w%joe@perches.com> In-Reply-To: <46bffc57.+VLVIUHqG3mGbW2w%joe@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708130024.23968.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 12 August 2007, joe@perches.com wrote: > Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches > I seem to be missing some context for these "2many" patches; and don't really see any in the MARC archives either. This seems like about 600 patches out of the blue. A lot for RC3, even if it is "just" for the MAINTAINERS file. Is the motivation here purely to make it easier to find out how to report bugs and suggest improvements? If so, that seems like only one of many related issues ... Is there general agreement that these "F:" entries should be used? Rather than, say, embedding references in the relevant parts of the source tree, adjacent to those files, where they would be more visible to people making relevant changes. I'm also concerned with the reality that the MAINTAINERS file is not accurate. The $SUBJECT patch is one example; the named maintainer is no longer active (in that area, at least) and the named driver is not actually separable from the rest of usbcore. Better IMO to just remove the "hub driver" entry.