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

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Message-ID: <20250210112547-66c11bee-38d4-4073-b2db-938a0cf674e3@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:35:06 +0100
From: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add kconfig utility scripts

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 02:23:41PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM Thomas Weißschuh
> <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de> 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
> >  F:     scripts/kconfig/
> 
> 
> There are a number of random scripts I am unfamiliar with.
> 
> I have never used checkkconfigsymbols.py
> 
> I may happen to check patches for such tools very reluctantly
> and very lazily, but it is daunting to endlessly extend
> my obligations, especially to the point where I lost interest.

Understood.
My intention is not to extend your obligations beyond your interest.

However I am not entirely sure from your message if this holds for all
three of the added scripts or only checkkconfigsymbols.py.
Until further notice I'll assume it affects all of them and the whole
patch should be dropped.


Thomas