Stefan Richter wrote: > On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: > >>(Really liked the idea to have a "Maintainer"-button >>next to "Help" in *config) > > > Rhetorical question: What will this button be used for?
Having "all(tm)" information of something in one place? Help-Text and Dependencies/Selects are already there. I think adding the Maintainers-data is more or less a logical next step. It's not always clear from the MAINTAINERS-file who is the right person for what. Especially as it is a rather large text-file with only mediocre search-friendlieness. It's a 3.5 K-lines file! So when you know that you have a problem with drivers X, wouldn't it be great if you could just "go to" the driver in *config and see not only the Help-Text but the Maintainers-Data also. And you can place "Fallback"-Maintainers-Data on Tree-Parents, for the cases where you only can pinpoint a area, like when you have a problem with a USB-device. I can ask a rhetorical question too: Why not go back to Config.help. Having a huge X K-Lines file with everything in one file can't be that bad. It worked before! Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
