[RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

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Hello all

Would like to come with a suggestion I have been wondering about for a while, why not add the config-flag, used in Kconfig/Makefile in the MAINTAINERS-file?

By doing this, there would not be any confusion who to send a patch, since all "files" is defined under a flag, right? (when it is a header-file, it can be grep'ed on the c-files and from the hit find the flag)

So, with a MAINTAINERS-entry like:

SUPERCOOL ALPHA CARD

P:	Clark Kent
M:	[email protected]
L:	[email protected]
C:	SUPER_A
S:	Maintained
(C: for CONFIG. Any better idea?)

then if someone changes a file who are built with CONFIG_SUPER_A, can easily backtrack it to the correct maintainer(s). And because there is no question how to find the correct maintainer, a script can do it for us. This is something that would be really useful for Kernel-Janitors when doing big cleanups all over the kernel (see ex pci_module_init to pci_register_driver and standardize the tree to use macros from include/linux/kernel.h). By this, I believe trivial patch-series would be reduced from the lkml when they can automatically be sent to the maintainer (and maybe specified mailing-list).

My first idea was to use the pathway and define that directories above the specified (if not specified by another) would fall to the current maintainer. It would work, but requires that all pathways be specified at once, or a few maintainers with "short" pathways would get much of the patches (and it is not as correct/easy to maintain as looking for the CONFIG_flag).


Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with this?).

Richard Knutsson

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