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

Lukas Bulwahn
2020-02-04T05:08:43Z

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.

Lukas