Re: I'm trying to identify the configuration-file maintainers

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Wed, 7 Jun 2000 07:45:05 -0400


Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>:
> > OK, but knowing who considers themselves responsible for the
> > associated subsystem is what I need (and a couple of people have in
> > fact emailed me saying "that Config.in is mine").
>
> Over and above the people who e-mail you, a good method is to look at
> the naming of each drivers/* subdirectory, and see if you can match up a
> name with an entry in MAINTAINERS. For example ISDN matches up with
> drivers/isdn/Config.in, while drivers/net/Config.in and
> drivers/char/Config.in do not have MAINTAINER entries. No hard and fast
> rule for this sort of thing..

Did that. It's how I came up with the base list I posted for corrections.

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