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Message-ID: <20070813191938.GI3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:19:38 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, joe@...ches.com,
xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
jeremy@...source.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [545/2many] MAINTAINERS - XEN HYPERVISOR INTERFACE
* Randy Dunlap (randy.dunlap@...cle.com) wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:55:36 -0700 Chris Wright wrote:
> > * joe@...ches.com (joe@...ches.com) wrote:
> > > +F: arch/i386/xen/
> > > +F: drivers/*/xen-*front.c
> > > +F: drivers/xen/
> > > +F: include/asm-i386/xen/
> > > +F: include/xen/
> >
> > I think this data will easily become stale. What is the point again?
>
> Agreed. But not everyone wants to or should have to use git,
> so what are the alternatives?
Between git (or gitweb), existing MAINTAINERS and a bit of common
sense (or extra sleuthing), I never perceived a significant problem.
Alternative could be to place info directly in source files. If not
all of MAINTAINERS info, it could be a tag to reference the relevant
MAINTAINERS entry.
thanks,
-chris
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