[PATCH v4 00/10] Auto-generate maintainer profile entries

[Jonathan Corbet]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei at kernel.org> writes:

> Hi Jon,
>
> This is basically the same patch series I sent during the merge
> window, rebased on the top of post 7.1-rc1 docs-next branch.
> It is tested both with and without O=DOCS.
>
> It contains just one extra trivial patch adding a missing SPDX
> header, and, on v4, I dropped two patches touching MAINTAINERS,
> as those aren't needed anymore.
>
> This patch series change the way maintainer entry profile links
> are added to the documentation. Instead of having an entry for
> each of them at an ReST file, get them from MAINTAINERS content.
>
> That should likely make easier to maintain, as there will be a single
> point to place all such profiles.
>
> The output is a per-subsystem sorted (*) series of links shown as a
> list like this:
>
>     - Arm And Arm64 Soc Sub-Architectures (Common Parts)
>     - Arm/Samsung S3C, S5P And Exynos Arm Architectures
>     - Arm/Tesla Fsd Soc Support
>     ...
>     - Xfs Filesystem
>
> Please notice that the series is doing one logical change per patch.
> I could have merged some changes altogether, but I opted doing it
> in small steps to help reviews. If you prefer, feel free to merge
> maintainers_include changes on merge.
>
> There is one interesting side effect of this series: there is no
> need to add rst files containing profiles inside a TOC tree: Just
> creating the file anywhere inside Documentation and adding a P entry
> is enough. Adding them to a TOC won't hurt.

One thing I kind of dislike about these magic mechanisms is that we end
up with a single, essentially unsorted list of stuff that readers have
to go digging their way through.  It would be nice if we could somehow
apply a bit of structure; as the number of these handbooks grows, our
readers would appreciate it.

Oh well, one can always hope.  Meanwhile, this seems useful, I've
applied it.

Thanks,

jon