On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 01:43:22PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org writes:
By looking at people working on the driver in git and the authors listed in the driver (get_maintainer --git will do most of this for you, though you do have to think about false positives). As previously advised this is not something that can be fully automated, you need to think about who you are sending things to and why.
Most files have been touched by many people. I thought the entire point of the MAINTAINERS file was to remove the guesswork from choosing where to send patches. Apparently sound/ has rules of its own.
No, this is true in general for the kernel - I'm just repeating SubmittingPatches to you here. Most individual drivers don't have a specific entry in MAINTAINERS and it's probably not worth the bother trying to get it completely 100% accurate. MAINTAINERS is there to be helpful and to have things like lists and git hanging off it but it's not the be all and end all of everything, it still generates false positives (consider how many ASoC patches Jaroslav has reviewed for example) and false negatives. No automated system is going to be perfect, at some point you're going to need to think.