linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default

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Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2015 01:05:35 +0100
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default

> Some top level directories contain other subsystems.
> 
> A maintainer of something like arch/arm doesn't generally
> want to be the maintainer of arch/arm/mach-<foo>
> 
> You _want_ a wider number of reviewers for patches to any
> of those unmaintained subsystems.

I agree.

+F:	drivers/i2c/*/

makes sense then.


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