linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add kconfig utility scripts

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Message-ID: <20250115132235-f8c9c9ac-714f-4836-baaa-07250c92e349@linutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:26:13 +0100
From: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
To: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add kconfig utility scripts

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 01:11:06PM +0100, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> On Wed 08 Jan 2025 13:34:28 GMT, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > There are various utilities in scripts/ which work with kconfig 
> > files.
> > These have currently no maintainer.
> > As most patches for them are applied through kconfig/kbuild anyways,
> > add an explicit maintainership entry.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 30cbc3d44cd53e6b1a81d56161004d7ab825d7a9..2bd414fb3e6d6515b57a57a5f3d4d735137edcce 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -12385,6 +12385,9 @@ Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/list/
> >  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git kbuild
> >  F:	Documentation/kbuild/kconfig*
> >  F:	scripts/Kconfig.include
> > +F:	scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
> > +F:	scripts/config
> > +F:	scripts/diffconfig
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Does it make sense to add scripts/extract-ikconfig also?  It does not 
> handle kconfig language at all, but linux-kbuild would probably still a 
> good place for review.

scripts/extract-ikconfig should be maintained together with
kernel/configs.c. Today both are formally unmaintained.
linux-kbuild picking up both looks reasonable to me.

> Nevertheless,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>

Thanks!