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Message-ID: <31ddd30f-300e-416e-83d6-2e18bda632c4@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:49:23 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update Kconfig section



On 10/23/25 12:25 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Masahiro Yamada stepped down as Kbuild and Kconfig maintainer in
> commit 8d6841d5cb20 ("MAINTAINERS: hand over Kbuild maintenance"),
> leaving Kconfig officially orphaned and handing Kbuild over to Nicolas
> and myself. Since then, there have been a few simple patches to Kconfig
> that have ended up on the linux-kbuild mailing list without clear
> direction on who will take them, as they are not really sent to anybody
> officially, although the list is obviously watched by the Kbuild
> maintainers.
> 
> Make Nicolas and I official maintainers of Kconfig in "Odd Fixes"
> status, similiar to Kbuild, so that the subsystem has clear points of
> contact for contributors, even if significant contributions may not be
> accepted.
> 
> Additionally, add the Kbuild tree to this section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

Thanks.

> ---
> We are going to de facto maintain this so we might as well make it
> official :) I will take this via kbuild-fixes at some point.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 545a4776795e..1471e1bf1510 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -13415,9 +13415,12 @@ F:	mm/kasan/
>  F:	scripts/Makefile.kasan
>  
>  KCONFIG
> +M:	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> +M:	Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
>  L:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
> -S:	Orphan
> +S:	Odd Fixes
>  Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/list/
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux.git
>  F:	Documentation/kbuild/kconfig*
>  F:	scripts/Kconfig.include
>  F:	scripts/kconfig/
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 211ddde0823f1442e4ad052a2f30f050145ccada
> change-id: 20251023-update-kconfig-maintainers-d637e7abb2fd
> 
> Best regards,
> --  
> Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> 
> 

-- 
~Randy