linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] MAINTAINERS: Remove unused PERFORMANCE EVENTS pattern

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Message-ID: <20110602074057.GE2150@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2011 09:40:57 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] MAINTAINERS: Remove unused PERFORMANCE EVENTS pattern

* Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:

> No arch/*/lib/perf_event* files exist so remove the pattern.
> 
> cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index ab6340f..6f6a8ef 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -4908,7 +4908,6 @@ F:	arch/*/kernel/perf_event*.c
>  F:	arch/*/kernel/*/perf_event*.c
>  F:	arch/*/kernel/*/*/perf_event*.c
>  F:	arch/*/include/asm/perf_event.h
> -F:	arch/*/lib/perf_event*.c
>  F:	arch/*/kernel/perf_callchain.c
>  F:	tools/perf/

The arch/*/lib/ hierarchy is a common place to put stuff into, it 
does not hurt at all to have it mentioned.

In Linux there's 10+ really important, not yet implemented features 
to implement, there's 100+ under-maintained subsystems to maintain, 
there's 1000+ not yet fixed bugs to fix, there's 10,000+ ugly driver 
files to be improved and there's 1,000,000+ stylistic errors to fix.

Mucking with the MAINTAINERS file on the level you did in this patch 
comes some time after we've fixed the 1,000,000+ stylistic errors.

Could you please stop mucking with these patterns and start dealing 
with some of the more important problems we have?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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