From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754655Ab0IAJoS (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:44:18 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:52355 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753320Ab0IAJoR (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:44:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:02:14 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Eric Paris Cc: Joe Perches , "ksummit-2010-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "mingo@elte.hu" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list Message-ID: <20100901110214.427bfdc3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1283300616.3284.213.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> References: <20100826154537.GA4874@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1282837904.1875.64.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20100826161451.GB2367@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1282839933.8133.11.camel@mulgrave.site> <20100826092923.4bdbea69.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20100826093838.74ab9958@infradead.org> <1283275388.1377.216.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20100831230213.GG2421@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1283296622.1377.765.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <987664A83D2D224EAE907B061CE93D53015D9B2445@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> <1283298391.1797.100.camel@Joe-Laptop> <1283300616.3284.213.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > If I just downloaded a big tar ball and started trolling randomly > through the source how am I going to know what the MAINTAINERS file is? Probably because you started with Documentation/* which explains it in SubmittingPatches for one ? > I just think that hoping a newbie is going to naturally know MAINTAINERS > isn't the best. If they can't find the MAINTAINERS file in the top level directory, and haven't read SubmittingPatches either then maybe that's not a complete disaster at that point ?