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 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F63BC05027 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2023 21:13:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229744AbjBLVN3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2023 16:13:29 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57774 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229499AbjBLVN1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2023 16:13:27 -0500 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0010.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.10]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8E32D1043E; Sun, 12 Feb 2023 13:13:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from omf16.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay08.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174AA140441; Sun, 12 Feb 2023 21:13:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf16.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6317920016; Sun, 12 Feb 2023 21:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: add email addresses from dts files From: Joe Perches To: Krzysztof Kozlowski , Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson , Rob Herring , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Shawn Guo , Krzysztof Kozlowski Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 13:13:19 -0800 In-Reply-To: <0d1f5d23-7a91-eee9-c7fe-044db8869735@linaro.org> References: <20230211121441.64359-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> <6b9347bc16febf724ca33fe99597eb163b4254ff.camel@perches.com> <0d1f5d23-7a91-eee9-c7fe-044db8869735@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT User-Agent: Evolution 3.44.4 (3.44.4-2.fc36) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Stat-Signature: 85drdbu11d9ri3kc5zddytr3o6zknps9 X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout06 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 6317920016 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX1/mtyatMvdED3hyezBVZribRqNFiLZ/Jek= X-HE-Tag: 1676236400-339113 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX1/5Zyzffp8AoqaHdodtalmQg+EYOIzEDxzEWcZ1mb6H852oXy66R0EQUWfmzIjMk/P3KxMyYTicAw== Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2023-02-12 at 16:51 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 11/02/2023 17:27, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-02-11 at 13:14 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > > > The DTS/DTSI files represent hardware description for Linux kernel, > > > which is necessary to properly recognize and configure hardware by > > > Linux. DTS is usually created by people having the actual hardware and > > > having interest in keeping it in good shape. Such people can provide > > > review (they might have board schematics) and testing. Unfortunately > > > they mostly do not appear in MAINTAINERS file. Adding per-DTS entries > > > to MAINTAINERS would quickly make it bloated (hundreds of new per-DTS > > > entries). > > > > > > On the other hand there is no point in CC-ing every Copyright email > > > appearing in files, because it might be outdated. That's what .mailmap is for. > > > Add new in-file > > > pattern for storing maintainers dedicated to specific boards: I think adding Maintainer: who to each dts and dtsi file would be a lot of unnecessary changes $ git ls-files | grep -P '\.dtsi?$' | wc -l 4673 > > > This is rework of earlier approach: > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210809080204.8381-1-shawnguo@kernel.org > > > > Why the rework? I think the older one is much simpler. > > > > I believe I forwarded the older one to Andrew Morton awhile back. > > I'll check to see what happened to it. > > It was never merged, thus I assumed some changes are needed, e.g. to > ignore emails in copyrights. I think the old one is fine.