linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/17] MAINTAINERS: Add drivers/staging entries

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Date:	Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:26:22 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Jarod Wilson <jarod@...sonet.com>,
	Jakub Schmidtke <sjakub@...il.com>,
	Henk de Groot <pe1dnn@...at.org>,
	Naren Sankar <nsankar@...adcom.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@...eros.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Mori Hess <fmhess@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Steve Underwood <steveu@...pice.org>,
	Simon Wunderlich <siwu@....tu-chemnitz.de>,
	Arnaud Patard <apatard@...driva.com>,
	Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de>,
	Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com.cn>,
	Ossama Othman <ossama.othman@...el.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>,
	Willy Tarreau <willy@...a-x.org>,
	Scott Davilla <davilla@....com>, Scott Smedley <ss@....gov.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Forest Bond <forest@...ttletooquiet.net>,
	David Rowe <david@...etel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] MAINTAINERS: Add drivers/staging entries

On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 14:12 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:49:34AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Some drivers/staging directories use a TODO file with email entries.
> > Make the same entries in the normal MAINTAINERS file.
> 
> No, please don't do this.  I don't want to clutter up the MAINTAINERS
> file with staging stuff.

It's not clutter when it helps get patches to the right reviewers
or responsible parties.

> The get_maintainer.pl script handles staging
> patches just fine today without this being needed at all.

Dubious.

Many of these nominal maintainer email entries are not
found in git logs.

For instance:

$ grep "@" drivers/staging/dt3155/TODO
Please send patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>
and Scott Smedley <ss@....gov.au>

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/staging/dt3155/
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>
devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org

Some have cc:'d entries, but not many actually have
Signed-off-by's.  Perhaps that's because the individuals
are not frequently cc'd on the actual patches.  Perhaps
because the people that put their names in the TODO's
just don't care.

> I also found it a bit odd you didn't send these to the stable subsystem
> maintainer, why?

The MAINTAINERS patches are forward going, not historical.

cheers, Joe

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