From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B2AC2B9F4 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D6661405 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232371AbhFQPsb (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:48:31 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:53892 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231593AbhFQPsb (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:48:31 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5360BC061574 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2021 08:46:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=ZOiz25qkRMmdEkdqZhQZcJIFLobjdvDZqxxJb+BDWJQ=; b=PBkw/aqYsecB5Z8gZhAOYonN3c 8GEg0wuGClMGlfYusi7iEOdaRfAIx++i/mM1lT3t4GWqS4RfCjJu3tZ0jt7jPmcwJSOUPxME2o5Oe 3C1ajNRpj9dl4W5CK6perGlEDSrMYth9K80p6k7P5XUOwQRlPlBeiyxB8h/vkIJObHOlhyiKNyonl j7YOGoscbHksWmFZ+LfPhJm+BF7Z++42aQ2+lqkwFtcnNjI0taS0TXdipwblo1TnQdx36y+yxC3WH eild+yNm3Pvv6qu4qQwV3WAo6SrIT48Q20qoXgFTn1WD/TdVkhum4jx702ekuaJra8d/JVOq9dmUo CY9//4nw==; Received: from hch by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ltuCu-009IOI-It; Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:45:30 +0000 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 16:45:28 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Rob Herring , Dmitry Vyukov , Konstantin Ryabitsev , users@linux.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: Github PR bot questions Message-ID: References: <20210616171813.bwvu6mtl4ltotf7p@nitro.local> <20210617085251.78d376d7@coco.lan> <20210617105534.0d4c02df@coco.lan> <20210617172450.05f91115@coco.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210617172450.05f91115@coco.lan> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 05:24:50PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > A change like that would touch lots of subsystems, making get_maintainer.pl > > > to spend a lot of time processing it, and producing thousands of > > > entries (btw, we had a change somewhat similar to the above a long time > > > ago when mutex API was introduced and most of the semaphores were converted > > > to use mutex kAPI instead). > > > > What I end up doing in those cases is only Cc'ing the subsystem > > maintainers. But that's a manual step of dropping all the driver and > > SoC maintainers. > > Yeah, surely it would be a lot better if the maintainer's file would > have a way to distinguish between driver and subsystem maintainers. Well, the problem here is really that get_mainters is broken and things anyone touching a file would care about future patches. Right now the only workaround for that is to get yourself added to .get_maintainer.ignore. The actual MAINTAINERS file processing issues are minor compared to that. One thing that I'd love is a way to express that yes, there are maintainers, and no you should not Cc them but just send the patches to the list. Maybe even with a core files vs drivers split as suggested by you above. But compared to the messed up git heuristics that is pretty much a minor issue.