On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 05:24:50PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > A change like that would touch lots of subsystems, making get_maintainer.pl > > > to spend a lot of time processing it, and producing thousands of > > > entries (btw, we had a change somewhat similar to the above a long time > > > ago when mutex API was introduced and most of the semaphores were converted > > > to use mutex kAPI instead). > > > > What I end up doing in those cases is only Cc'ing the subsystem > > maintainers. But that's a manual step of dropping all the driver and > > SoC maintainers. > > Yeah, surely it would be a lot better if the maintainer's file would > have a way to distinguish between driver and subsystem maintainers. Well, the problem here is really that get_mainters is broken and things anyone touching a file would care about future patches. Right now the only workaround for that is to get yourself added to .get_maintainer.ignore. The actual MAINTAINERS file processing issues are minor compared to that. One thing that I'd love is a way to express that yes, there are maintainers, and no you should not Cc them but just send the patches to the list. Maybe even with a core files vs drivers split as suggested by you above. But compared to the messed up git heuristics that is pretty much a minor issue.
