On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 10:42 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > The maintainer info should be in the source file itself! That's the only > reasonable way to keep it updated; now I'm all for having it machine > parsable so that tools can use it, but it still really should be in the > code itself, not in some central file that will always just go out of > data, and will be a huge source of needless patch conflicts.
If the problem is to do with people failing to update the MAINTAINERS file, why would moving the same data into 20 or 30 source files motivate them to keep it up to date? As far as I can see, that would just serve to multiply the amount of stale data... Trond - 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/
