23/01/2025 15:17, David Marchand: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM Bruce Richardson > <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > The code for reassembling a single, multi-mbuf packet from multiple > > buffers received from the NIC is duplicated across many drivers. Rather > > than having multiple copies of this function, we can create an > > "intel/common" directory to hold such functions and consolidate > > multiple functions down to a single one for easier maintenance. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > > The new drivers/net/intel/common directory is an orphan. > Please add it to MAINTAINERS. > > An alternative: to avoid such miss in the future, it could be worth > having a dedicated block in MAINTAINERS for drivers/net/intel/ with > subtree set to next-net-intel and an associated subtree maintainer > name, then move all Intel drivers in this block. > > Thomas, opinion?
I'm not sure about creating a new level. It needs to be the last one of the parent block to make our script working. Can we start with just a new entry for the common directory?
