Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default

From	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default
Date	2015-10-28 00:40 +0100
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On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 00:25 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > Another option would be to add another pattern to the
> > I2C section that matches all subdirectories of drivers/i2c/:
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index fb7d2e4..c670e1f 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -5104,6 +5104,7 @@ S:	Maintained
> >  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/
> >  F:	Documentation/i2c/
> >  F:	drivers/i2c/
> > +F:	drivers/i2c/*/
> 
> Hmm, what would be the drawback of extending the meaning of
> 'drivers/i2c/' to include 'drivers/i2c/*/'? To be honest, I assumed it
> works this way already and I'd think I am not alone with that
> assumption.

Some top level directories contain other subsystems.

A maintainer of something like arch/arm doesn't generally
want to be the maintainer of arch/arm/mach-<foo>

You _want_ a wider number of reviewers for patches to any
of those unmaintained subsystems.

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[PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2015-10-26 23:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2015-10-27 00:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2015-10-27 01:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-10-27 03:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default joe@perches.com - 2015-10-27 06:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name> - 2015-10-27 06:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2015-10-27 09:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2015-10-27 10:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2015-10-27 11:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2015-10-27 11:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-10-27 18:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-10-27 19:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2015-10-28 00:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-10-28 00:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2015-10-28 01:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-10-28 01:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2015-10-28 10:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-10-27 19:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2015-10-27 19:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2015-10-27 20:30 +0100

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