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    SubjectRe: tracking MAINTAINERS versus tracking SUBSYSTEMS
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    "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes:

    > i'm confused -- i thought that was sort of the whole purpose of this
    > exercise, to match parts of the kernel source tree against the
    > maintainer for those parts, and to do that via the defined
    > "subsystem" which is currently used in MAINTAINERS.
    >
    > you can, of course, banish the concept of a subsystem entirely and
    > work purely from a file and directory perspective, but i think the
    > notion of the kernel tree being composed of subsystems is a useful
    > idea. that's just my opinion, though.

    Obviously the concept of subsystems is the right one, except that
    the subsystems aren't that well defined (or they are but not
    for average kernel user) - thus "file masks".
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    Krzysztof Halasa
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