linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 2/3] Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry Profile

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Message-ID: <78b0d48ac797d565b0dd98de02fc21bd2ce5769a.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:34:08 +0000
From:   "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>
To:     "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "me@...in.cc" <me@...in.cc>,
        "stfrench@...rosoft.com" <stfrench@...rosoft.com>,
        "ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "mchehab@...nel.org" <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        "dvyukov@...gle.com" <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 2/3] Maintainer Handbook:
 Maintainer Entry Profile

On Wed, 2019-09-11 at 08:48 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3f171339df53..e5d111a86e61 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
>  	   Obsolete:	Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
>  			it has been replaced by a better system and you
>  			should be using that.
> +	P: Subsystem Profile document for more details submitting
> +	   patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree file,
> +	   or a URI. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
> +	   for details.

Considering each maintainer entry or driver may not have a subdirectory
under Documentation/ to put these under, would it be better to collect
them in one place, say Documentation/maintainer-entry-profiles/ ?