Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
Richard Knutsson wrote:
Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with
this?).
The thought that crossed my mind was:
Why not do the same thing that was done to the "Help"-file. (Before it
was superseded by Kconfig).
Originaly there was a central Help-file, with all the texts. Then it was
split and placed in each sub-dir. And later it was superseded by Kconfig.
On the other hand you could skip the intermediate step and just fold the
Maintainer-data directly into Kconfig, that way everything is "in one
place" and you could place a "Maintainers"-Button next to the
"Help"-Button in *config, or just display it alongside the help.
And MAYBE that would also lessen the "update-to-date"-problem, as you
can just write the MAINTAINERs-data when you create/update the
Kconfig-file. Which is a thing that creates much bigger pain when you
forget it accidently. ;-)
Oh, and it neadly solves the mapping-problem, for at least all
kernel-parts that have a Kconfig-option/Sub-Tree.
I'm all for splitting up the MAINTAINERS! :)
Just, do you have any ideas how to solve the possible multiple of the
same entries, when handling multiple sub-directories and when many
different drivers with different maintainers are in the same directory
and a maintainer have more then one driver?
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