On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 14:12 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:49:34AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > Some drivers/staging directories use a TODO file with email entries. > > Make the same entries in the normal MAINTAINERS file. > > No, please don't do this. I don't want to clutter up the MAINTAINERS > file with staging stuff.
It's not clutter when it helps get patches to the right reviewers or responsible parties. > The get_maintainer.pl script handles staging > patches just fine today without this being needed at all. Dubious. Many of these nominal maintainer email entries are not found in git logs. For instance: $ grep "@" drivers/staging/dt3155/TODO Please send patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> and Scott Smedley <[email protected]> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/staging/dt3155/ Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Simon Horman <[email protected]> H Hartley Sweeten <[email protected]> [email protected] [email protected] Some have cc:'d entries, but not many actually have Signed-off-by's. Perhaps that's because the individuals are not frequently cc'd on the actual patches. Perhaps because the people that put their names in the TODO's just don't care. > I also found it a bit odd you didn't send these to the stable subsystem > maintainer, why? The MAINTAINERS patches are forward going, not historical. cheers, Joe _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
