On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 00:25 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > Another option would be to add another pattern to the > > I2C section that matches all subdirectories of drivers/i2c/: > > --- > > MAINTAINERS | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > index fb7d2e4..c670e1f 100644 > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > @@ -5104,6 +5104,7 @@ S: Maintained > > F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/ > > F: Documentation/i2c/ > > F: drivers/i2c/ > > +F: drivers/i2c/*/ > > Hmm, what would be the drawback of extending the meaning of > 'drivers/i2c/' to include 'drivers/i2c/*/'? To be honest, I assumed it > works this way already and I'd think I am not alone with that > assumption.
Some top level directories contain other subsystems. A maintainer of something like arch/arm doesn't generally want to be the maintainer of arch/arm/mach-<foo> You _want_ a wider number of reviewers for patches to any of those unmaintained subsystems. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
