Re: [PATCH 54/56] x86: Remove void casts

[Jack Stone]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> In theory we could put regex patterns into MAINTAINERS. Something 
> like this:
>
> LOCKDEP AND LOCKSTAT
> P:	Peter Zijlstra
> M:	peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> P:	Ingo Molnar
> M:	mingo@xxxxxxxxxx
> L:	linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> T:	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep.git
> F:	kernel/lock*
> F:	include/linux/lockdep.h
> S:	Maintained
>
> Note: there are files that fall under multiple maintainers so this 
> wouldnt be a 'precise' thing - but it would sure be useful.
>
> ( There's also other details like subdirectories within a larger 
>   hiearchy and there being overlap between problems. Sometimes they 
>   are sub-maintained, sometimes they are exclusive so pure glob
>   patterns are probably not enough. )
>
> If this concept looks good to you ... i'd suggest that before you do 
> a large patch against MAINTAINERS mapping all the maintainer 
> domains, could you just do it for a few cases and send an RFC patch 
> to lkml?
>
> If there's a general upstream buy-in and a there's a 
> scripts/list-maintainers.sh script that takes advantage of it then 
> all this would be rather useful. (and i've Cc:-ed Andrew and Linus - 
> if this is to be shot down due to fundamental objections then better 
> do it at the early stages ;-)
>
> Plus checkpatch could be extended to check whether the Cc: list in a 
> patch properly matches the patterns in MAINTAINERS.
>
> If done propery this would save us from quite a few mechanic "hm, 
> who maintains _that_ file??" searches and it would also save 
> maintainers from quite a few "hm, who queued up _that_ crap without 
> Cc:-ing me??" moments.
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>   
That has already been done. Someone just so happened to submit
such a patch today.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123916809504492&w=2

Thanks,

Jack


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