From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752925AbdHOA7C (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:59:02 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0038.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.38]:35972 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752808AbdHOA7B (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:59:01 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:973:981:982:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2553:2559:2562:2691:2736:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3353:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:4250:4321:5007:6119:7809:9040:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12663:12740:12760:12895:13069:13311:13357:13439:14096:14097:14180:14181:14659:14721:21060:21080:21611:21627:30054:30060:30090:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:3,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: fish00_6b9b3b1a47437 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2719 Message-ID: <1502758738.8295.29.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] get_maintainer: Prepare for separate MAINTAINERS files From: Joe Perches To: Pavel Machek , Linus Torvalds Cc: Randy Dunlap , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:58:58 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20170814220929.GA3937@amd> References: <1501661042.31625.0.camel@perches.com> <83fbe646-23f4-2098-b907-85aeae211fb6@infradead.org> <20170814220929.GA3937@amd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6-1ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 00:09 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed 2017-08-02 11:15:09, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > IMO, the parse-maintainters.pl (sorting) script makes the need for separate > > > MAINTAINERS files much less important since the file can be "fixed" easily > > > at any time. > > > > For me it's not the "fixing". It's the inevitable merge mess, and the > > two hundred commits that I have to go through. > > > > That said, the extra time just to look for MAINTAINERS files makes me > > unhappy. It may be just .3s on Joe's machine, but it's presumably much > > more when things aren't in the filesystem caches. I (like apparently > > Joe) have an SSD so it's not a big deal for me, but.. > > > > Just having a single MAINTAINERS directory would alleviate that > > concern. > > Well, I am one of those slow-spinning-rust users. (I do have SSD here, > but bcache is not exactly easy to configure with already-existing > setup). > > Using git is already pretty painful... but I believe having > net/MAINTAINERS file which clearly tells you who maintains this > directory would save time even for me. Grepping MAINTAINERS is not > currently very easy ("is it NET subsystem or NETWORK subsystem?", is > it listed as "ALSA" or "ADVANCED LINUX SOUND..."?) and splitting it to > directories would help a lot. > > Having single directory with all the MAINTAINERS files would be even > worse than current situation.. What does not work well about scripts/get_maintainer.pl ?