Re: RFC: Github PR bot questions

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 05:24:50PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > A change like that would touch lots of subsystems, making get_maintainer.pl
> > > to spend a lot of time processing it, and producing thousands of
> > > entries (btw, we had a change somewhat similar to the above a long time
> > > ago when mutex API was introduced and most of the semaphores were converted
> > > to use mutex kAPI instead).  
> > 
> > What I end up doing in those cases is only Cc'ing the subsystem
> > maintainers. But that's a manual step of dropping all the driver and
> > SoC maintainers.
> 
> Yeah, surely it would be a lot better if the maintainer's file would
> have a way to distinguish between driver and subsystem maintainers.

Well, the problem here is really that get_mainters is broken and things
anyone touching a file would care about future patches.  Right now the
only workaround for that is to get yourself added to
.get_maintainer.ignore.

The actual MAINTAINERS file processing issues are minor compared
to that.  One thing that I'd love is a way to express that yes, there
are maintainers, and no you should not Cc them but just send the
patches to the list.  Maybe even with a core files vs drivers split
as suggested by you above.  But compared to the messed up git
heuristics that is pretty much a minor issue.