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8 messages, 3 authors, 2007-08-15 · open the first message on its own page
From: joe@perches.com
Date: 2007-08-13 06:57:34
Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 90c1b81..ac2226b 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS@@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ ARPD SUPPORT P: Jonathan Layes L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained +F: net/ipv4/arp.c ASUS ACPI EXTRAS DRIVER P: Corentin Chary
From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-13 13:58:17
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:23:36 -0700 joe@perches.com wrote:
Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 90c1b81..ac2226b 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS@@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ ARPD SUPPORT P: Jonathan Layes L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained +F: net/ipv4/arp.c
NAK arp.c is the netdev people, ARPD is a corner case bit of code within it, something your patterns don't actually cope with
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: 2007-08-13 16:40:38
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 11:49 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 90c1b81..ac2226b 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS@@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ ARPD SUPPORT P: Jonathan Layes L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained +F: net/ipv4/arp.cNAK arp.c is the netdev people, ARPD is a corner case bit of code within it, something your patterns don't actually cope with
Suggestions?
From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-13 16:56:59
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:46:06 -0700 Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 11:49 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:quoted
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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 90c1b81..ac2226b 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS@@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ ARPD SUPPORT P: Jonathan Layes L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained +F: net/ipv4/arp.cNAK arp.c is the netdev people, ARPD is a corner case bit of code within it, something your patterns don't actually cope withSuggestions?
I wouldn't add a pattern for this. Actually I think the entire thing is a bad idea but thats another matter.
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: 2007-08-13 17:17:22
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 17:35 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
I wouldn't add a pattern for this.
Back to:ARPD SUPPORT P: Jonathan Layes L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained
Actually I think the entire thing is a bad idea but thats another matter.
Of course it's not an end-all solution, but what might work better?
From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-13 17:53:59
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:04:19 -0700 Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 17:35 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:quoted
I wouldn't add a pattern for this.Back to:ARPD SUPPORT P: Jonathan Layes L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintainedquoted
Actually I think the entire thing is a bad idea but thats another matter.Of course it's not an end-all solution, but what might work better?
Working off the git tree as it shows who actually is making changes/updating stuff recently and why which is a major clue when tracing bugs
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date: 2007-08-15 08:10:54
Alan Cox wrote:
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Actually I think the entire thing is a bad idea but thats another matter.
Working off the git tree as it shows who actually is making changes/updating stuff recently and why which is a major clue when tracing bugs
Adrian Bunk wrote in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/30/107 : | I don't see how git could tell you to Cc net patches to | netdev@vger.kernel.org. Ditto with problem reports. For example, Cc'ing linux1394-devel on FireWire topics is a lot more important than Cc'ing me. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =--- -==== http://arcgraph.de/sr/
From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-15 08:27:25
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:10:38 +0200 Stefan Richter [off-list ref] wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:quoted
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Actually I think the entire thing is a bad idea but thats another matter.quoted
Working off the git tree as it shows who actually is making changes/updating stuff recently and why which is a major clue when tracing bugsAdrian Bunk wrote in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/30/107 : | I don't see how git could tell you to Cc net patches to | netdev@vger.kernel.org. Ditto with problem reports. For example, Cc'ing linux1394-devel on FireWire topics is a lot more important than Cc'ing me.
Tools question. And even if you need to keep a simple set of mappings by hand for mailing list/files thats a fairly small set of patterns