[PATCH] get_maintainer: add email addresses from dts files
Krzysztof Kozlowski
krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Sun Feb 12 07:51:14 PST 2023
On 11/02/2023 17:27, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-02-11 at 13:14 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> The DTS/DTSI files represent hardware description for Linux kernel,
>> which is necessary to properly recognize and configure hardware by
>> Linux. DTS is usually created by people having the actual hardware and
>> having interest in keeping it in good shape. Such people can provide
>> review (they might have board schematics) and testing. Unfortunately
>> they mostly do not appear in MAINTAINERS file. Adding per-DTS entries
>> to MAINTAINERS would quickly make it bloated (hundreds of new per-DTS
>> entries).
>>
>> On the other hand there is no point in CC-ing every Copyright email
>> appearing in files, because it might be outdated. Add new in-file
>> pattern for storing maintainers dedicated to specific boards:
>>
>> Maintainer: John Smith <email>
>>
>> Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
>> Suggested-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> This is rework of earlier approach:
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210809080204.8381-1-shawnguo@kernel.org
>
> Why the rework? I think the older one is much simpler.
>
> I believe I forwarded the older one to Andrew Morton awhile back.
> I'll check to see what happened to it.
It was never merged, thus I assumed some changes are needed, e.g. to
ignore emails in copyrights.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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