On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > I'm throwing out _one_ idea: split it up by the main F: line, so that > maintainership information ends up being hierarchical like the Kconfig > files. Teach "get_maintainer.pl" to just do "find . -name > MAINTAINERS" instead?
For a more radical change, get rid of the MAINTAINERS file entirely, and put the information into the Kconfig files - kind of like the "help" text, except with the rules. It's probably not really workable, but in many ways the maintainership often tends to more closely match the configuration than the tree layout, and some of the fields would actually make sense for the help thing (eg the whole support status, but also the web-page with status/info pointer). Again - just throwing this out as a "please discuss" thing. Linus