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SubjectRe: tracking MAINTAINERS versus tracking SUBSYSTEMS
Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 13:35 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> $ show_subsystem drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c
>> BLUETOOTH
>
> "what's a subsystem"?
> I'm not sure there is an appropriate definition.
> If there is an appropriate definition, why
> should anyone care what subsystem a particular
> file is in?

Until I can pass a patch or source file as an argument to a script and get out
the URL of the git tree it needs to go into on the path to Linus's tree,
MAINTAINERS is inadequate. If I ask for the MAINTAINER info of
drivers/net/atl1/atl1_main.c, I should get back myself, my co-maintainer, our
sourceforge URL, our mailing list address, etc. There should also be a
mechanism, either as part of MAINTAINERS or something else, that will tell me
that atl1 is part of the netdev subsystem, which is discussed on
netdev@vger.kernel.org, maintained by Jeff Garzik, and has the appropriate URI
for the netdev GIT tree.

-- Chris
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