Mark Brown <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 01:23:20PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote: >> Mark Brown <[email protected]> writes: > >> > Please remember to CC the maintainers for the driver when sending >> > patches. > >> I CCd everybody scripts/get_maintainers.pl suggested. How am I supposed >> to know who the maintainers are if they're not listed in MAINTAINERS? > > By looking at people working on the driver in git and the authors listed > in the driver (get_maintainer --git will do most of this for you, though > you do have to think about false positives). As previously advised this > is not something that can be fully automated, you need to think about > who you are sending things to and why.
Most files have been touched by many people. I thought the entire point of the MAINTAINERS file was to remove the guesswork from choosing where to send patches. Apparently sound/ has rules of its own. -- Måns Rullgård
