Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] Auto-generate maintainer profile entries

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 4 May 2026 09:00:41 +0200
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 03 May 2026 09:49:41 -0600
> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> 
> > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi Jon,
> > >
> > > This is basically the same patch series I sent during the merge
> > > window, rebased on the top of post 7.1-rc1 docs-next branch.
> > > It is tested both with and without O=DOCS.
> > >
> > > It contains just one extra trivial patch adding a missing SPDX
> > > header, and, on v4, I dropped two patches touching MAINTAINERS,
> > > as those aren't needed anymore.
> > >
> > > This patch series change the way maintainer entry profile links
> > > are added to the documentation. Instead of having an entry for
> > > each of them at an ReST file, get them from MAINTAINERS content.
> > >
> > > That should likely make easier to maintain, as there will be a single
> > > point to place all such profiles.
> > >
> > > The output is a per-subsystem sorted (*) series of links shown as a
> > > list like this:
> > >
> > >     - Arm And Arm64 Soc Sub-Architectures (Common Parts)
> > >     - Arm/Samsung S3C, S5P And Exynos Arm Architectures
> > >     - Arm/Tesla Fsd Soc Support
> > >     ...
> > >     - Xfs Filesystem
> > >
> > > Please notice that the series is doing one logical change per patch.
> > > I could have merged some changes altogether, but I opted doing it
> > > in small steps to help reviews. If you prefer, feel free to merge
> > > maintainers_include changes on merge.
> > >
> > > There is one interesting side effect of this series: there is no
> > > need to add rst files containing profiles inside a TOC tree: Just
> > > creating the file anywhere inside Documentation and adding a P entry
> > > is enough. Adding them to a TOC won't hurt.  
> > 
> > One thing I kind of dislike about these magic mechanisms is that we end
> > up with a single, essentially unsorted list of stuff that readers have
> > to go digging their way through. 

Heh, perhaps you're referring to the TOC tree. You'll see it
unsorted on diffs because the TOC tree there is hidden. As it is
a set, currently it will output a different result on each run.

Not a problem for users, but it makes harder to check differences
after patches, so I'm planning to submit a patch to keep it sorted
just for the sake of doing:

	diff -u before/ after/

Thanks,
Mauro