Joe Perches wrote:Really? Please check out this thread with at least two ideas of possible implementations, with Stefan Richter as the spokesman of the current implementation: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116870578531280&w=3I grew weary of looking up the appropriate
maintainer email address(es) to CC: for a patch.
I added flags to the MAINTAINERS file
F: file pattern
for each maintained block and a script to parse
the modified blocks for maintainer and list
email addresses.
perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl <patch>
gives the appropriate maintainer(s).
Modifications since last post:
Added options to control email address style and multiple address separator
Please apply.
Well, I came up with this implementation, so I definately support it and the way Joe implemented it: