Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFHelp: Splitting MAINTAINERS into maintainers/* and Makefile/Kconfig support | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:30:41 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 02:25 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > The whole point of MAINTAINERS is to have one central repository for this > information, instead of scattering it throughout the various source files. If > that file is getting too unwieldy (and I don't think it is) then I could > understand splitting it up hierarchically, for example having a > drivers/net/MAINTAINERS that listed the info for all the net drivers.
The individual MAINTAINERS files eliminates what Linus described as their "hotness". No shared updates by multiple parties.
> What you're suggesting is a less efficient equivalent to putting the info > directly into the source files.
I believe that wrong.
Maintainer patterns frequently look like:
F: arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/ F: drivers/cpufreq/ F: include/linux/cpufreq.h
If in source, this would currently require 21 + 12 + 1 modifications instead of 1.
> If that approach was enough to make people > happy, we wouldn't have MAINTAINERS to begin with.
I think the insertion of maintainers into source itself is wrong. It's freeform, error prone and requires significant modifications to source files as maintainers come and go.
> Perhaps with a little automation it could be revived,
Which is the help I'm looking for.
Can someone please help here on ideas or implementation adding a makefile target for MAINTAINERS from files in a specific subdirectory?
> though I think that adding a path pattern > removes the need, while keeping it easier to parse by scripts. > I appreciate the effort to make MAINTAINERS more useful, > but please don't add another 600 files to the tree.
In the distributed form, you'll still end up with ~400 new files spread all over the tree.
Either way, you'll have hundreds of files.
$ grep "^F:" MAINTAINERS | sed -e "s/[A-Za-z0-9\_\*\.\-]*$//" | sort | uniq | wc -l 415
Centralized as maintainers/* or distributed as ../../../Maintainers
Pick one, I don't much care, but I'm still looking for Makefile/KConfig help reassembling it into a single MAINTAINERS block similar to the current form.
Help?
cheers, Joe
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