> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 17:10 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:56:25 +0200 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Yes please. Manually searching MAINTAINERS is boring and hard... 'Is
> > > it NETWORK BLOCK DEVICE' or 'NBD'? 'ALSA' or 'ADVANCED LINUX SOUND
> > > SYSTEM'? ... plus if you want subsystem maintainer, search tends to
> > > give you about 179 individual driver maintainers, first.
> > Well.... both the acronym and long name should be listed IMO.
> > Especially the acronym/short name.
>
> Human based visual searches are error prone.
>
> There really does need to be some systematic and automated
> mechanism to find the maintainers for a particular file.
>
> Maintainer file patterns, either centralized in MAINTAINERS
> or distributed in some mechanism in the file system or git
> are useful.
>
> Linus' original point about "hotness" of MAINTAINERS being
> an issue was later refuted by Linus.
>
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/414
