"Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm confused -- i thought that was sort of the whole purpose of this > exercise, to match parts of the kernel source tree against the > maintainer for those parts, and to do that via the defined > "subsystem" which is currently used in MAINTAINERS. > > you can, of course, banish the concept of a subsystem entirely and > work purely from a file and directory perspective, but i think the > notion of the kernel tree being composed of subsystems is a useful > idea. that's just my opinion, though.
Obviously the concept of subsystems is the right one, except that the subsystems aren't that well defined (or they are but not for average kernel user) - thus "file masks". -- Krzysztof Halasa - 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/
