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On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 10:35:52AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Perhaps scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be taught to only consider the
> subsystem maintainer, and ignore git history, for changes to Makefiles
> and Kconfig files?

In general looking at git history is pretty much always the wrong thing,
except maybe for the initial commit.

> Or move the Kconfig/Makefile bits into the driver sources, next to
> the MODULE_*() bits, which I believe was part of Roman Zippel's big
> plan when he wrote the new Kconfig system...

I don't think having Kconfig in source files is a good thing.  Being
able to integrate the Makefile into Kconfig OTOH would be really nice..

config FOOBAR
	tristate 'Foo driver'
	depends on PCI
	help
	   This is the driver for the foo hardware.
	module foo
	sources foo_core.c foo_sysfs.c foo_debugfs.c