From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765485AbZDHPHx (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:07:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932144AbZDHPHc (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:07:32 -0400 Received: from mgw1.diku.dk ([130.225.96.91]:41964 "EHLO mgw1.diku.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763472AbZDHPHb (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:07:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:06:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Julia Lawall To: Jack Stone Cc: Ingo Molnar , Bert Wesarg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 54/56] x86: Remove void casts In-Reply-To: <49DCBBDF.4040603@fastmail.fm> Message-ID: References: <1239189748-11703-54-git-send-email-jwjstone@fastmail.fm> <1239189748-11703-55-git-send-email-jwjstone@fastmail.fm> <36ca99e90904080518qf81b483h6ed2bc9752ee0d1e@mail.gmail.com> <49DCAE97.8040602@fastmail.fm> <20090408140637.GC12931@elte.hu> <49DCB140.7000603@fastmail.fm> <20090408144055.GH12931@elte.hu> <49DCB8C5.4090108@fastmail.fm> <20090408144842.GK12931@elte.hu> <49DCBA61.8060507@fastmail.fm> <20090408145715.GO12931@elte.hu> <49DCBBDF.4040603@fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Jack Stone wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jack Stone 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. This can be helpful: http://lwn.net/Articles/284469/ It's a bit out of date, though, because git-blame seems to have disappeared as a command. julia