Re: [PATCH 8/9] docs: maintainers_include: don't ignore invalid profile entries

Gary Guo
2026-05-05T11:16:10Z

On Tue May 5, 2026 at 6:45 AM BST, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 2026 02:20:45 +0200
> Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 2:08 AM Mauro Carvalho Chehab
>> <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Also, with time, maintainers may change their employers while still
>> > keeping their maintainership status.
>> >
>> > So, I'd say that whatever is there at the "P" entry, or where it is
>> > located (either on a ReST file at the Kernel or on some external URL),
>> > it should reflect the model that a maintainer or subsystem community
>> > that actively participate at the Kernel development agrees with.
>> > This should be vendor-agnostic.
>>
>> I am not sure what you mean. By "vendored" I don't mean
>> companies/employers, I mean that the file comes from an upstream
>> repository:
>>
>> https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
>>
>> Nevertheless, it is true that this really is a special case, in that
>> the upstream project decided to provide something that could then be
>> fit into the `P:` field.
>>
>> One could say "let's ask them to do rst upstream", but to be honest,
>> it is simpler to just put a hyperlink to GitHub's rendered file.
>> Markdown is anyway a better fit for their file.
>
> Ok. Then it P entry could be:
>
> P: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

If you send a patch I can queue it up for 7.2. Or would you want this to be
taken via docs tree instead?

Best,
Gary