From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S970495AbXHMPzr (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:55:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S946637AbXHMOQS (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:16:18 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:59033 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S946634AbXHMOQQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:16:16 -0400 Message-ID: <46C067AE.3090409@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:16:14 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Brownell CC: joe@perches.com, 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 Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] [497/2many] MAINTAINERS - USB HUB DRIVER References: <46bffc57.+VLVIUHqG3mGbW2w%joe@perches.com> <200708130024.23968.david-b@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <200708130024.23968.david-b@pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Brownell wrote: > 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 is no longer active (in that area, at least) and the named driver is 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. I don't speak for Joe, but: If there is a good mapping from MAINTAINERS to paths then more submitters will use MAINTAINERS more frequently. A side effect would be that outdated entries in MAINTAINERS would become apparent more quickly, and updated more quickly. Of course that's just speculation --- but your comment on this "hub driver" entry, prompted by Joe's patch, seems to support that speculation. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =--- -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/