On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 15:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > > > > I think it's better to centralize the MAINTAINERS > > location in <tree>/MAINTAINERS/<files> than spread > > them all over the tree given how many subsystems and > > maintainerships are also spread around the tree. > > > > But the get_maintainers patch I sent allows both > > styles. > > Possibly. I just did realize that we have one de-centralized > maintainers file out there already, and have had for 3+ years: > drivers/staging/unisys/MAINTAINERS.
That file should be deleted as it's duplicated in the standard MAINTAINERS file > One thing I like about the decentralized model is that it looks like > we could automate the initial split fairly well based on F: patterns. > Something like: > > - if we have a single F-pattern line, without directory wildcards, > put the entry in the MAINTAINERS directory for that F-pattern That would create more than 750 files.
