Hello, I'd like to present a suggestion for automatic generation of carbon copy fields in the E-Mails of posted patches.
Basically, instead of manually figuring out who to add to CC when sending a patch to LKML by looking at MAINTAINERS, a script can look at '.maintainers' files spread across the source tree and automatically generate a proper list of CCs for a patch. To illustrate: If a patch affects a file under drivers/net/e1000, the CC script will look at these files drivers/net/e1000/.maintainers drivers/net/.maintainers drivers/.maintainers .maintainers ... to gather up the mailing list addresses or an individual maintainer inbox address. A posssible format for this file could be a newline-separated list of: [filename wildcard]:e-mail For example, drivers/scsi/.maintainers would contain: libiscsi.*:[EMAIL PROTECTED] scsi_*.c:[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc... Or, instead (or in addition) of having a '.maintainers' file each directory we can modify source files by adding parsable '/* MAINTAINER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */' comments. Some extensions to the popular E-Mail clients might be needed here. Also, a bot reading LKML would automatically send links about posted patches to the other mailing lists whenever someone forgets to add a CC. Any comments? -- Dan Aloni XIV LTD, http://www.xivstorage.com da-x (at) monatomic.org, dan (at) xiv.co.il - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
