Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2017 20:12:12 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2017-07-27 at 19:43 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > > > Maybe add a reordering of the patterns so that each pattern list > > is in a specific order too > > I don't think this is wrong per se, but I'm not sure I want to get > into the merge hell any more than we are already. > > Maybe when/if that file is actually split up?
Fine by me.
The get_maintainer patch is a prereq to any split-up.
There are a bunch of little niggly patches that should go in that remove/update bad F: patterns too one day.
Given the differences between -next and your tree, I think only Andrew and quilt would do a decent job of getting individual patches merged.
Unless you want to take them.
I think it's better to centralize the MAINTAINERS location in <tree>/MAINTAINERS/<files> than spread them all over the tree given how many subsystems and maintainerships are also spread around the tree.
But the get_maintainers patch I sent allows both styles.
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