On Mon, 2021-11-15 at 14:39 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 12:16:53PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > > Maybe we should just remove MAINTAINERS from stable trees to make it > > obvious. > > I don't think we should go quite that far. Instead, perhaps we can > modify get_maintainer.pl (if needed) such that it prints out a warning > or reminder to consult the upstream MAINTAINERS file if the script is > invoked on an older stable kernel. I don't see how that's feasible.