Re: [linux-pm] Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote:

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It would be much easier to put in the "kernel/somesubsys" directory a 
Maintainers file which has:

It's ofcourse possible, but note that if we want this stuff to be minimally 
manual, moving files around (and deleting them) then requires editing these 
actual in-tree files via a tool.

With the properties deleting files just requires deleting any file-specific 
properties alongside which is trivial since those are linked from the file.

Moving stuff works by building a list of all properties that are set on the 
source starting at the source and destination's highest shared parent 
directory and then reconstructing this list at the destination, striking 
properties off the list that are already set at the destination.

Adding properties, alongside added files or after the fact, could be done 
via standard patch submissals via the kind of "meta-diff" that already 
exists for "git move".

I really believe this stuff should be meta-data -- and these properties as 
outlined work well it seems.

Please remember that not everybody uses git.  The MAINTAINERS data 
should be available in the kernel source itself.

(Maybe your suggestion is consistent with this -- I simply wanted to 
raise the point.)

Alan Stern