On 07/22/2014 06:08 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Srikanth Thokala <stho...@xilinx.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelg...@google.com> wrote: >>> ... >>> I see I forgot to ask for a MAINTAINERS entry for this driver. Can >>> you add one? >> >> There was a discussion on this earlier and Michal mentioned it is not >> required as it is >> handled by our Xilinx record. >> >> Here is the reply from Michal to the MAINTAINERS update comment, >> >> < Reply from Michal > >> >>> Please also include a MAINTAINERS update for drivers/pci/host/pci-xilinx.c. >> >> This should be handle by our record that's why MAINTAINERS update is >> not necessary. >> (N: xilinx below) > > That's technically true in the sense that get_maintainer.pl will do > the right thing, but I often review patches in email (without > extracting them), so it's more convenient to just look in MAINTAINERS > to see if they have the right acks. But I guess I can deal with it > either way.
There is also another reason for using just this fragment. Because developers and their responsibilities are changing so often and I just know who is responsible for it at that time. Thanks, Michal -- 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/
