Re: [workflows]RFC: switching "THE REST" in MAINTAINERS away from linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Joe Perches
2023-11-08T16:35:14Z

On Mon, 2023-11-06 at 11:05 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 10:33:21 -0500
> Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > For this reason, I propose switching the "F: *" entry in MAINTAINERS
> > ("THE REST") to patches@lists.linux.dev instead. This list differs from LKML
> > in the following important aspects:
>
> As long as it doesn't affect those that have L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>
> All core kernel changes should still go there.
>
> (Scheduler, timing, tracing, interrupts, etc)

If this is done, perhaps half or more of the lkml
mailing list entries in MAINTAINERS should be removed.

This grep shows all the section entries with
L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
most of which seem not "core".

$ git grep -P -n "(?:^[\w][^:]|^L:\s*linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org)" MAINTAINERS | \
grep -B1 linux-kernel | grep -v '^--' | grep -v ':L:'
MAINTAINERS:1382:ANDROID DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS:2357:ARM/Mediatek SoC support
MAINTAINERS:2881:ARM/TEXAS INSTRUMENT AEMIF/EMIF DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS:2896:ARM/TEXAS INSTRUMENT KEYSTONE CLOCK FRAMEWORK
MAINTAINERS:2902:ARM/TEXAS INSTRUMENT KEYSTONE CLOCKSOURCE
MAINTAINERS:2909:ARM/TEXAS INSTRUMENT KEYSTONE RESET DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:3318:ATOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE
MAINTAINERS:4192:BROADCOM BRCMSTB USB2 and USB3 PHY DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:4659:CANAAN/KENDRYTE K210 SOC RESET CONTROLLER DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:5119:CLOCKSOURCE, CLOCKEVENT DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS:5429:CPU HOTPLUG
MAINTAINERS:5821:DEBUGOBJECTS:
MAINTAINERS:6018:DEVICE COREDUMP (DEV_COREDUMP)
MAINTAINERS:6025:DEVICE DEPENDENCY HELPER SCRIPT
MAINTAINERS:6402:DPAA2 DATAPATH I/O (DPIO) DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:8004:EXTERNAL CONNECTOR SUBSYSTEM (EXTCON)
MAINTAINERS:8016:EXTRA BOOT CONFIG
MAINTAINERS:8232:FIRMWARE LOADER (request_firmware)
MAINTAINERS:8697:FUNCTION HOOKS (FTRACE)
MAINTAINERS:8730:FUTEX SUBSYSTEM
MAINTAINERS:8795:GENERIC ARCHITECTURE TOPOLOGY
MAINTAINERS:8802:GENERIC ENTRY CODE
MAINTAINERS:8915:GENERIC VDSO LIBRARY
MAINTAINERS:9460:HIGH-RESOLUTION TIMERS, CLOCKEVENTS
MAINTAINERS:9484:HIKEY960 ONBOARD USB GPIO HUB DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:9592:HISILICON PTT DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:9647:HISILICON SPMI CONTROLLER DRIVER FOR HIKEY 970
MAINTAINERS:9654:HISILICON SPMI PMIC DRIVER FOR HIKEY 6421v600
MAINTAINERS:9842:HYGON PROCESSOR SUPPORT
MAINTAINERS:10613:INTEL CPU family model numbers
MAINTAINERS:10820:INTEL MANAGEMENT ENGINE (mei)
MAINTAINERS:10951:INTEL STRATIX10 FIRMWARE DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS:11215:IRQ SUBSYSTEM
MAINTAINERS:11224:IRQCHIP DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS:11628:KERNEL USERMODE HELPER
MAINTAINERS:11906:KPROBES
MAINTAINERS:12307:LINUX KERNEL MEMORY CONSISTENCY MODEL (LKMM)
MAINTAINERS:12446:LOCKING PRIMITIVES
MAINTAINERS:12725:MAILBOX API
MAINTAINERS:12735:MAILBOX ARM MHUv2
MAINTAINERS:13059:MAXIM MAX20086 CAMERA POWER PROTECTOR DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:13072:MAXIM MAX77650 PMIC MFD DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:13093:MAXIM MAX77802 PMIC REGULATOR DEVICE DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:13117:MAXIM PMIC AND MUIC DRIVERS FOR EXYNOS BASED BOARDS
MAINTAINERS:13857:MEMBARRIER SUPPORT
MAINTAINERS:13876:MEMORY CONTROLLER DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS:14069:MICROCHIP AT91 USART MFD DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:14606:MODULE SUPPORT
MAINTAINERS:15278:NITRO ENCLAVES (NE)
MAINTAINERS:15290:NOHZ, DYNTICKS SUPPORT
MAINTAINERS:15581:NXP PTN5150A CC LOGIC AND EXTCON DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:15595:NXP SJA1105 ETHERNET SWITCH DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:16315:PADATA PARALLEL EXECUTION MECHANISM
MAINTAINERS:16952:PERFORMANCE EVENTS SUBSYSTEM
MAINTAINERS:17031:PIDFD API
MAINTAINERS:17290:POSIX CLOCKS and TIMERS
MAINTAINERS:17409:PROC FILESYSTEM
MAINTAINERS:17418:PROC SYSCTL
MAINTAINERS:17762:QORIQ DPAA2 FSL-MC BUS DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:18252:RDT - RESOURCE ALLOCATION
MAINTAINERS:18350:REGISTER MAP ABSTRACTION
MAINTAINERS:18561:RESTARTABLE SEQUENCES SUPPORT
MAINTAINERS:18775:ROHM MULTIFUNCTION BD9571MWV-M PMIC DEVICE DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS:19140:SAMSUNG MULTIFUNCTION PMIC DEVICE DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS:19251:SAMSUNG USB2 PHY DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:19275:SCHEDULER
MAINTAINERS:20458:SPMI SUBSYSTEM
MAINTAINERS:21799:TI KEYSTONE MULTICORE NAVIGATOR DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS:21884:TIMEKEEPING, CLOCKSOURCE CORE, NTP, ALARMTIMER
MAINTAINERS:21976:TORTURE-TEST MODULES
MAINTAINERS:22064:TRACING
MAINTAINERS:22080:TRACING MMIO ACCESSES (MMIOTRACE)
MAINTAINERS:22123:TTY LAYER AND SERIAL DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS:22219:UACCE ACCELERATOR FRAMEWORK
MAINTAINERS:22737:UUID HELPERS
MAINTAINERS:23222:VME SUBSYSTEM
MAINTAINERS:23232:VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:23275:VMWARE VMCI DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:23300:VMWARE VSOCK VMCI TRANSPORT DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:23314:VOLTAGE AND CURRENT REGULATOR FRAMEWORK
MAINTAINERS:23568:X-POWERS MULTIFUNCTION PMIC DEVICE DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS:23588:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)
MAINTAINERS:23602:X86 ENTRY CODE
MAINTAINERS:23634:X86 MM
MAINTAINERS:23705:X86 VDSO
MAINTAINERS:24008:XILINX ZYNQMP PSGTR PHY DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:24021:XILLYBUS DRIVER
MAINTAINERS:24115:ZHAOXIN PROCESSOR SUPPORT
MAINTAINERS:24148:ZRAM COMPRESSED RAM BLOCK DEVICE DRVIER
MAINTAINERS:24190:THE REST