Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:31:43 -0400 | From | Chris Snook <> | Subject | Re: tracking MAINTAINERS versus tracking SUBSYSTEMS |
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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.
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