On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 21:24 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > > > > Just for ease of manipulation and not breaking the script much, > > I'd suggest just having a MAINTAINERS directory and stuffing > > each of the sections into separate files. > > > > The script would only need to add $ cat MAINTAINERS/* as input. > > So I don't mind the idea of just making MAINTAINERS a directory, but I > don't think we want to so far as to make one file per entry. That's > what, 1500+ files tiny files or so? Seems a bit excessive. > > Maybe we can just do the prefix thing and just do 26 files A-Z > instead? Or maybe go by first word (so all the ARM things would go in > one place?) > > A couple of hundred files sounds fine. A couple of thousand files > sound a bit excessive..
$ ls MAINTAINERS.tmp/ | wc -l 1735 <shrug> A couple thousand individual maintainers is also excessive. Most maintainers in MAINTAINERS aren't really much involved. A-Z is arbitrary and still difficult to find because it's not descriptive as to whatever is actually maintained. As a concept I think individual files would be better. But maybe grouping by subsystem instead of by letter. Maybe by mirroring the directory layouts. <by arch> drivers/net drivers/scsi etc...
