[PATCH 00/17] MAINTAINERS: Add drivers/staging entries

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Wed Jun 9 00:20:30 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 17:07 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 02:26:22PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 14:12 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:49:34AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > Some drivers/staging directories use a TODO file with email entries.
> > > > Make the same entries in the normal MAINTAINERS file.
> > > No, please don't do this.  I don't want to clutter up the MAINTAINERS
> > > file with staging stuff.
> > It's not clutter when it helps get patches to the right reviewers
> > or responsible parties.
> That's my job as staging maintainer, right?  Am I somehow not doing this
> properly?

You can take on all the jobs you want, but automated
tools that allow others to perform those actions and
simultaneously reduce individual workload are better.

> > > I also found it a bit odd you didn't send these to the stable subsystem
> > > maintainer, why?
> > The MAINTAINERS patches are forward going, not historical.
> What does that mean?

It means that relatively few people are developing against
old kernel versions and patches to MAINTAINERS rarely, if
ever, need backporting.






More information about the devel mailing list