Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH] media: add a subsystem profile documentation

Daniel Vetter
2019-09-20T14:10:00Z

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 1:27 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-09-19 at 10:08 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 03:48:31PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > Em Wed, 18 Sep 2019 20:27:05 +0300
> > > Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> escreveu:
> > >
> > > > > Anyway, not sure if the other sub-maintainers see the same way. From my side,
> > > > > I prefer not to be c/c, as this is just more noise, as I just rely on
> > > > > patchwork for media patches. What about changing this to:
> > > > >
> > > > > Patches for the media subsystem should be sent to the media mailing list
> > > > > at linux-media@vger.kernel.org as plain text only e-mail. Emails with
> > > > > HTML will be automatically rejected by the mail server. It could be wise
> > > > > to also copy the sub-maintainer(s).
> > > >
> > > > That works for me. As this is really a personal preference, is there a
> > > > way it could be encoded in MAINTAINERS in a per-person fashion ?
> > > > Something that would allow you to opt-out from CC from linux-media (but
> > > > possibly opt-in for other parts of the kernel), and allow me to opt-in
> > > > for the drivers I maintain ?
> > >
> > > I don't think so. Perhaps we could add, instead, something like that at the
> > > sub-maintainers section of the profile.
> >
> > Of course there is a way to add yourself as a maintainer for a specific
> > .c file... Maybe people feel like MAINTAINERS is too crowded?
> >
> > We could update get_maintainer.pl to grep the .c files for a specific
> > tag instead of putting everything in a centralized MAINTAINERS file.
>
> Another option is to split the MAINTAINERS file into multiple
> distributed files. get_maintainer.pl already supports that.
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/730509/
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1501350403.5368.65.camel@perches.com/

Oh I missed that entirely. Can we roll this out now in subsystems? I'd
really like to move all the gpu related MAINTAINERS entries into
drivers/gpu. The one file in the root is unmangeable big and git blame
takes forever. Ofc splitting it isn't an immediate fix, but long term
should be easier. I thought Linus planned to just do that split (at
least the first level or so) after an -rc1?
-Daniel

> > But it doesn't make sense to try store that information MY BRAIN! I
> > can't remember anything from one minute to the next so I have no idea
> > who maintains media submodules...
>
> Nor I. Nor should I have to.
>
>
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