Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:30:39 +0100 Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would like to come with a suggestion I have been wondering about for a > while, why not add the config-flag, used in Kconfig/Makefile in the > MAINTAINERS-file? I find that the most practical way to find out who r

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-15 Thread Richard Knutsson
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: Richard Knutsson wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: On 15 Jan, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: (Really liked the idea to have a "Maintainer"-button next to "Hel

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-15 Thread Stefan Richter
On 15 Jan, Richard Knutsson was... > thinking of trying to implement it I'd say go ahead and test your idea. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= - http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mo

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-15 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Richard Knutsson wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: > >> On 15 Jan, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: >> >> >>> Stefan Richter wrote: >>> >>> On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: > (Really liked the idea to have a "Maintainer"-button next to "Help" > in *config) >

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-15 Thread Richard Knutsson
Stefan Richter wrote: On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: May I remind that whoever uses scripts to figure out contacts should better double-check what the script found out for him. [...] During development, that's a given. But I would hope that when its

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-15 Thread Richard Knutsson
Stefan Richter wrote: On 15 Jan, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: 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? Havi

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
On 15 Jan, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > 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 somethin

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
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/Sele

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Richard Knutsson wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > >> Richard Knutsson wrote: >> >> >>> Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: >>> >>> >>> Richard Knutsson wrote: > Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with > this?).

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
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? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= -===- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> gcc -o test3.o test.c test.c >> > That produces just an executable file with a misleading name :) #-) [...] >> 3. When people notice that patches are misdirected too often, they will >>update MAINTAINERS. >> > You mean they u

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Richard Knutsson
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: Richard Knutsson wrote: Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: Richard Knutsson wrote: Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with this?). The thought that crossed my mind was: Why not do the same thing that

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Richard Knutsson
Stefan Richter wrote: On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: [getting a wrong contact from looking at the MAINTAINERS file] Hopefully, but I think it is asking much of the maintainer and then there will certanly be confused/frustrated submitter who don't know why

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-13 Thread Stefan Richter
I wrote: > gcc -o test3.o test.c test.c ^^ typo gcc -o test3.o test.c test2.c -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= -===- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More ma

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-13 Thread Stefan Richter
On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: [getting a wrong contact from looking at the MAINTAINERS file] > Hopefully, but I think it is asking much of the maintainer and then > there will certanly be confused/frustrated submitter who don't know why > they don't get any answer nor

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-13 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Richard Knutsson wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > >> Richard Knutsson wrote: >> >> >> >>> Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with >>> this?). >>> >> >> >> The thought that crossed my mind was: >> >> Why not do the same thing that was done to the "Help

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-13 Thread Richard Knutsson
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: Richard Knutsson wrote: Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with this?). The thought that crossed my mind was: Why not do the same thing that was done to the "Help"-file. (Before it was superseded by Kconfig). Originaly th

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-13 Thread Richard Knutsson
Stefan Richter wrote: On 13 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: On 13 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: [...] SUPERCOOL ALPHA CARD P: Clark Kent M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] C: SUPER_A S: Maintained (C: for CONFIG. Any better i

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-13 Thread Stefan Richter
On 13 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> On 13 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: >> [...] >> >>> SUPERCOOL ALPHA CARD >>> >>> P: Clark Kent >>> M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> C: SUPER_A >>> S: Maintained >>> (C: for CONFIG. Any better idea?) >>> >>> then i

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-13 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Richard Knutsson wrote: > Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with > this?). The thought that crossed my mind was: Why not do the same thing that was done to the "Help"-file. (Before it was superseded by Kconfig). Originaly there was a central Help-file, with all t

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-13 Thread Richard Knutsson
Stefan Richter wrote: On 13 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: [...] SUPERCOOL ALPHA CARD P: Clark Kent M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] C: SUPER_A S: Maintained (C: for CONFIG. Any better idea?) then if someone changes a file who are built with CONFIG_SUPER_A, c

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-13 Thread Stefan Richter
On 13 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: [...] > SUPERCOOL ALPHA CARD > > P:Clark Kent > M:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > L:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > C:SUPER_A > S:Maintained > (C: for CONFIG. Any better idea?) > > then if someone changes a file who are built with CONFIG_SUPER_A, can > easily backt

[RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-13 Thread Richard Knutsson
Hello all Would like to come with a suggestion I have been wondering about for a while, why not add the config-flag, used in Kconfig/Makefile in the MAINTAINERS-file? By doing this, there would not be any confusion who to send a patch, since all "files" is defined under a flag, right? (when