On Tue, 2017-08-08 at 11:33 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-08-05 at 18:45 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > Move MAINTAINERS into a separate directory and reorder it. > > > Separate various blocks of MAINTAINER sections into separate files. > > > > Hey Linus. > > > > If/when you try this out, do please let me know what > > you think. > > Ok, I've applied the preparatory patches, but not run the script. > > Or rather, I ran the script to see what happens, but I'm not going to > push the end result. > > From a quick look at the end result, I note: > > - the arch maintainer split is pointless. It ends up being just one > entry per architecture
I think that's just preliminary. Many of the arches have a single maintainer and many of the drivers specific to that arch could/should be moved into the arch_<foo> file. But that doesn't seem easily scriptable. > for x86_64 not even that (because the x86> pattern matched all of > them) What x86_64 section is that? There isn't an arch/x86_64 directory and only 1 combined entry for x86 and x86_64. > - the two arch maintainer lists that end up being bigger is x86 and > arm, but the x86 one picked up a log of misleading ones (not just PCI: > EFI, various random other things too) Yeah, it's imperfect. Suggestions welcomed. > - they all end up having the empty line at the top because of how the > parse-maintainers.pl script works. That's because I was a bit lazy about the output. awk '{ if (NR > 1) { print; } }' would fix it. Also a 00-README type file for the introductory section could be useful. > But *some* of it looks really nice. > > The other thing I note is that the way the patches look, this is going > to be a disaster to merge with any other work - and there really tends > to be a lot of things touching MAINTAINERS. It is going to be messy. Once done it should be easier though. Even today there's a merge conflict (kinda) with -next and the alphabetic reordering movement as one of the sections is duplicated again. (SYNC FILE FRAMEWORK) Collecting the remainder MAINTAINERS patches after an -rc1 and applying them with a quilt like merge might help too if Andrew feels up to it. > I'll have to think about it. > > But at least the infrastructure patches are applied, Thanks.