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    SubjectRe: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
    On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:19:12AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
    > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:44:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > > I have to admit that personally I've always found the MAINTAINERS file
    > > more of an irritation than anything else. The first place _I_ tend to look
    > > personally is actually in the source files themselves (although that may
    > > be a false statistic - the kind of people I tend to have to look up aren't
    > > the main maintainers at all, but more single driver people etc).
    > >
    > > It might not be a bad idea to just make that "mention maintainer at the
    > > top of the file" the common case.
    >
    > There's one problem with that though - if someone maintains many files,
    > and his email address changes, you end up with a large patch changing all
    > those email addresses in every file.
    >
    > IMHO its far better to have someone's name at the top of each file, and
    > put the email addresses in the MAINTAINERS file.

    Also FWIW I go to MAINTAINERS file first, when I construct the CC line
    for patches sent to Linus. Poking around the source is annoying and not
    terribly scalable in my experience.

    Jeff



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