Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: correct entries for ISDN/mISDN section

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2020-02-04 at 06:08 +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 1:08 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 12:13 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 10:45 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > > I'm not sure it's ready. I think parse-maintainers.pl will change few
> > > > lines here.
> > > 
> > > parse-maintainers would change a _lot_ of the MAINTAINERS file
> > > by reordering section letters.
> > 
> > I think it's quite easy to find out if it had changed the record in question.
> > 
> I checked it and it does change a bit. My patch adds to a list of file 
> entries sorted by "relevance" (not alphabetically) two further minor (by 
> relevance) entries, i.e., Kconfig and Makefile, to the end of that list.
> 
> The other reorderings would have already applied to the original state; 
> rather than trying to "fix" this locally for this one patch here, I would 
> prefer to understand why the discussion on splitting the MAINTAINERS file,
> summarized at https://lwn.net/Articles/730509/, got stuck and how I can 
> contribute to that. If that bigger change would happen, we could 
> automatically clean up all the entries when the things are splitted, 
> rather than sending reordering patches to the maintainers that then spend 
> time on trying to merge that all back together.

Realistically, ISDN is all but dead.

Perhaps it'd be better to change the entries here to:

F:	drivers/isdn/
X:	drivers/isdn/capi/