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 appearing in files, because it might be outdated.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 <who@xxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > 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.
