Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

Richard Knutsson wrote:
> Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> 
>> Richard Knutsson wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with
>>> this?).
>>>     
>>
>>
>> The thought that crossed my mind was:
>>
>> Why not do the same thing that was done to the "Help"-file. (Before it
>> was superseded by Kconfig).
>>
>> Originaly there was a central Help-file, with all the texts. Then it was
>> split and placed in each sub-dir. And later it was superseded by Kconfig.
>>
>> On the other hand you could skip the intermediate step and just fold the
>> Maintainer-data directly into Kconfig, that way everything is "in one
>> place" and you could place a "Maintainers"-Button next to the
>> "Help"-Button in *config, or just display it alongside the help.
>>
>> And MAYBE that would also lessen the "update-to-date"-problem, as you
>> can just write the MAINTAINERs-data when you create/update the
>> Kconfig-file. Which is a thing that creates much bigger pain when you
>> forget it accidently. ;-)
>>
>> Oh, and it neadly solves the mapping-problem, for at least all
>> kernel-parts that have a Kconfig-option/Sub-Tree.
>>   
> 
> I'm all for splitting up the MAINTAINERS! :)
> 
> Just, do you have any ideas how to solve the possible multiple of the
> same entries, when handling multiple sub-directories and when many
> different drivers with different maintainers are in the same directory
> and a maintainer have more then one driver?

Handles.
If a Maintainer maintains several subsystems/drivers a "handle" could be
used to references to a handle-list (hello MAINTAINERS) or to the place
where the full-maintainers-entry is placed.





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