Re: [PATCH 54/56] x86: Remove void casts

From: Jack Stone
Date: Wed Apr 08 2009 - 11:00:22 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jack Stone <jwjstone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>>> No, i mean, this approach should be changed, and i dont think any
>>> type cast change should go via any trivial tree. It's easy to mess
>>> it up. Please submit them to the maintainer trees
>>>
>> Ok. I'll try and find appropriate CCs. I'm going out shortly so it
>> might take me a while.
>>
>
> Since you do many such patches it might make sense to script up a
> "who maintains what" kind of script - and share that script with
> lkml.
>
> I have this silly little script:
>
> git log $@ | grep Signed-off-by: |
> cut -d: -f2 | cut -d\< -f1 |
> sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>
> To find out any recent parties that touches a particular file. But
> it would be nice to somehow automate the pickup of mailing-list
> addresses from MAINTAINERS for example. We've literally got hundreds
> of email lists there.
>
> It is not trivial to do though :-)
>
It would be useful. The main problem is working out what files belong to
what MAINTAINERS entries.

I'll see what I can cook up.

Thanks,

Jack
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