"Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> writes:
> i'm confused -- i thought that was sort of the whole purpose of this
> exercise, to match parts of the kernel source tree against the
> maintainer for those parts, and to do that via the defined
> "subsystem" which is currently used in MAINTAINERS.
>
> you can, of course, banish the concept of a subsystem entirely and
> work purely from a file and directory perspective, but i think the
> notion of the kernel tree being composed of subsystems is a useful
> idea. that's just my opinion, though.
Obviously the concept of subsystems is the right one, except that
the subsystems aren't that well defined (or they are but not
for average kernel user) - thus "file masks".
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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