On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2017-08-05 at 18:45 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: >> Move MAINTAINERS into a separate directory and reorder it. >> Separate various blocks of MAINTAINER sections into separate files. > > Hey Linus. > > If/when you try this out, do please let me know what > you think.
Ok, I've applied the preparatory patches, but not run the script. Or rather, I ran the script to see what happens, but I'm not going to push the end result. >From a quick look at the end result, I note: - the arch maintainer split is pointless. It ends up being just one entry per architecture, and for x86_64 not even that (because the x86 pattern matched all of them) - the two arch maintainer lists that end up being bigger is x86 and arm, but the x86 one picked up a log of misleading ones (not just PCI: EFI, various random other things too) - they all end up having the empty line at the top because of how the parse-maintainers.pl script works. But *some* of it looks really nice. The other thing I note is that the way the patches look, this is going to be a disaster to merge with any other work - and there really tends to be a lot of things touching MAINTAINERS. I'll have to think about it. But at least the infrastructure patches are applied, Linus