> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 15:31 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
>> Until I can pass a patch or source file as an argument to a script and get out
>> the URL of the git tree it needs to go into on the path to Linus's tree,
>> MAINTAINERS is inadequate. If I ask for the MAINTAINER info of
>> drivers/net/atl1/atl1_main.c, I should get back myself, my co-maintainer, our
>> sourceforge URL, our mailing list address, etc. There should also be a
>> mechanism, either as part of MAINTAINERS or something else, that will tell me
>> that atl1 is part of the netdev subsystem, which is discussed on
>>
netdev@vger.kernel.org, maintained by Jeff Garzik, and has the appropriate URI
>> for the netdev GIT tree.
>
> Finding a specific "List" or "Web" or "Tree" from a file is
> a pretty easy extension to the current get_maintainer script.
>
> The git_maintainer script could easily be modified to take
> a filename rather than a patch file as input too.
>
> There is no specific "parent" information in MAINTAINERS.
> Are you suggesting there should be?
>
> Still, it's easy to use directory parentage.
> Is that good enough?
