linux-kernel - Re: mistakes in code vs. maintainer flow mistakes

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Message-ID: <51EDD76B.5050407@huawei.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:07:55 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: mistakes in code vs. maintainer flow mistakes

> Perhaps what might help here is a kernel organizational chart.  A graph
> of who sends pull requests to Linus, and their subsystem maintainers.
> For example, in the USB "branch" there would be:
> 
> 				Linus Torvalds
> 			(Linux kernel release engineer)
> 					|
> 					|
> 				Greg Kroah-Hartman
> 				      (USB)
> 					|
> 					|
> 			-------------------------------------------------
> 			|		|		|		|
> 			|		|		|		|
> 		Sarah Sharp		|		|	   Oliver Neukum
> 	(USB3 and USB core)		|		|	(USB NCM and auto-suspend)
> 					|		|
> 				Alan Stern		|
> 			(EHCI/UHCI/OHCI and USB core)	|
> 							|
> 							|
> 						Felipe Balbi
> 					(USB3 plat and USB gadget)
> 

Nice chart, exccept that the complete chart will in no doubt break 80
characters limit. Actually as the hierarchy is quite flat, I can't
image how long the longest line will be.

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