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SubjectRe: RFHelp: Splitting MAINTAINERS into maintainers/* and Makefile/Kconfig support
Joe Perches wrote:
> I've got a tree with a directory full of separate
> MAINTAINER blocks that looks like:
>
> 00_file_description
> 3c359_network_driver
> 3c505_network_driver
> 3c59x_network_driver
> 3cr990_network_driver
> ...
> zd1211rw_wireless_driver
> zf_machz_watchdog
> zr36067_video_for_linux_driver
> zs_decstation_z85c30_serial_driver
> zz_the_rest
>
> A little more than 600 files

NO. PLEASE!

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.

What you're suggesting is a less efficient equivalent to putting the info
directly into the source files. If that approach was enough to make people
happy, we wouldn't have MAINTAINERS to begin with. Perhaps with a little
automation it could be revived, 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.

-- Chris
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