From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759387AbXHQPNv (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:13:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754669AbXHQPNl (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:13:41 -0400 Received: from DSL022.labridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:3951 "EHLO perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754650AbXHQPNl (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:13:41 -0400 Subject: Re: RFHelp: Splitting MAINTAINERS into maintainers/* and Makefile/Kconfig support From: Joe Perches To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Chris Snook , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070817144827.GB20963@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <1187297496.5906.113.camel@localhost> <46C53F3F.5060108@redhat.com> <1187353841.822.60.camel@localhost> <20070817144827.GB20963@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:13:27 -0700 Message-Id: <1187363607.822.88.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2-2.1mdv2007.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 16:48 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Adding a specific target på top-level Makefile is easy to > do so I assume you are looking for something more advanced? No, I'm looking for something simple. Perhaps something like: Makefile contents: all: [0-9a-z]* install: sh cat [0-9a-z]* > ../MAINTAINERS clean: rm -f ../MAINTAINERS I don't hardly understand the linux make machinery for files that aren't .o, so I don't know if that's reasonable or valid. > And that part "more advanced" I do not know what is. > Doing so using the normal kbuild machinery is not soo > good since it will be parallel and we want something serail > here. > > If you define how the Maintainer info is stored we can work > out something. My preference is for a single directory with maintainers stored as separate files because it's very simple, but it's still up in the air. Basically breaking up the current monolithic MAINTAINERS file into separate little files. For instance this chunk of MAINTAINERS [...] 3C359 NETWORK DRIVER P: Mike Phillips M: mikep@linuxtr.net L: netdev@vger.kernel.org W: http://www.linuxtr.net S: Maintained F: drivers/net/tokenring/3c359* 3C505 NETWORK DRIVER P: Philip Blundell M: philb@gnu.org L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: drivers/net/3c505* [...] would become File "maintainers/3c359_network_driver" with content: 3C359 NETWORK DRIVER P: Mike Phillips M: mikep@linuxtr.net L: netdev@vger.kernel.org W: http://www.linuxtr.net S: Maintained F: drivers/net/tokenring/3c359* and File "maintainers/3c505_network_driver" with content: 3C505 NETWORK DRIVER P: Philip Blundell M: philb@gnu.org L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: drivers/net/3c505* thanks, Joe