Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update maintainers for blackfin arch and drivers. | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:43:29 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 12:11 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 16 November 2011 11:36:15 Joe Perches wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 10:20 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 November 2011 08:12:06 Joe Perches wrote: > > > > Drivers or arches without specific people to maintain > > > > them really should not have "S: Supported". > > > > These should really be "S: Orphan". > > > all the drivers are still maintained. use the L: option to find the > > > maintainer. > > I believe I know how the MAINTAINERS > > entries work. > > From MAINTAINERS: > > M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain> > > L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area > > Mailing lists aren't maintainers. > they contain all the maintainers
That's akin to lkml as the kernel maintainer.
> > Maybe Analog Devices should create > > an email address alias like > > linux-devel@analog.com > > so we should duplicate the ml into an alias to keep MAINTAINERS happy ?
When there is a company but not individuals responsible for an arch or drivers, then yes.
> makes no sense. use the ml.
You mean the list that bounces my email?
>-----Original Message----- >From: uclinux-dist-devel-bounces@blackfin.uclinux.org >[mailto:uclinux-dist-devel-bounces@blackfin.uclinux.org]
That's suboptimal.
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