From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752670AbdHNWJc (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:09:32 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:56000 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752408AbdHNWJb (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:09:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:09:29 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Randy Dunlap , Joe Perches , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] get_maintainer: Prepare for separate MAINTAINERS files Message-ID: <20170814220929.GA3937@amd> References: <1501661042.31625.0.camel@perches.com> <83fbe646-23f4-2098-b907-85aeae211fb6@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! On Wed 2017-08-02 11:15:09, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Randy Dunlap wro= te: > > > > IMO, the parse-maintainters.pl (sorting) script makes the need for sepa= rate > > MAINTAINERS files much less important since the file can be "fixed" eas= ily > > at any time. >=20 > For me it's not the "fixing". It's the inevitable merge mess, and the > two hundred commits that I have to go through. >=20 > 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.. >=20 > 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 --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlmSH5kACgkQMOfwapXb+vLUqQCcCygd92f1APCuhy+AA7tlJMib QY8Anj27UfCnFMU4px5/hR9A1uOfrpxE =jyme -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--