linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] get_maintainer: Prepare for separate MAINTAINERS files

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Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:09:29 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] get_maintainer: Prepare for separate MAINTAINERS files

Hi!

On Wed 2017-08-02 11:15:09, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
> >
> > IMO, the parse-maintainters.pl (sorting) script makes the need for separate
> > MAINTAINERS files much less important since the file can be "fixed" easily
> > at any time.
> 
> For me it's not the "fixing". It's the inevitable merge mess, and the
> two hundred commits that I have to go through.
> 
> That said, the extra time just to look for MAINTAINERS files makes me
> unhappy. It may be just .3s on Joe's machine, but it's presumably much
> more when things aren't in the filesystem caches. I (like apparently
> Joe) have an SSD so it's not a big deal for me, but..
> 
> Just having a single MAINTAINERS directory would alleviate that
>concern.

Well, I am one of those slow-spinning-rust users. (I do have SSD here,
but bcache is not exactly easy to configure with already-existing
setup).

Using git is already pretty painful... but I believe having
net/MAINTAINERS file which clearly tells you who maintains this
directory would save time even for me. Grepping MAINTAINERS is not
currently very easy ("is it NET subsystem or NETWORK subsystem?", is
it listed as "ALSA" or "ADVANCED LINUX SOUND..."?) and splitting it to
directories would help a lot.

Having single directory with all the MAINTAINERS files would be even
worse than current situation..
									Pavel
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