Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] MAINTAINERS: add recently created files to dw_dmac section | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Date | Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:38:04 +0300 |
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On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 20:15 +0530, viresh kumar wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Andy Shevchenko > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > Append myself to mail subsection as well. > > Mail subsection? You are adding yourself as Maintainer of dw_dmac... Yes and odd, accordingly to documentation: "Descriptions of section entries: ... M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain> ... S: Status, one of the following: ... Maintained: Someone actually looks after it.
..." (subsection = section entry).
The status is applied to the section, but person. We discussed this with Joe in previous messages.
> Do you really want that. > I am asking this, because that's not the normal practice followed in kernel. In current design of the MAINTAINERS database I don't see other way to apply "watch for the changes to the specific driver" condition.
> This isn't done until unless, somebody has done a MAJOR modification > to the driver. Define the "MAJOR" (rhetorical) :-)
-- Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Intel Finland Oy
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