Re: maintainer profiles

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 4/11/26 4:54 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 4/10/26 1:12 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 17:18:39 -0700
>> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there supposed to be a difference (or distinction) in the contents of
>>>
>>> Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst
>>> and
>>> Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Can they be combined into one location?
>>
>> Heh, from the 5 entries at maintainer-handbooks.rst:
>>
>>    maintainer-netdev
>>    maintainer-soc
>>    maintainer-soc-clean-dts
>>    maintainer-tip
>>    maintainer-kvm-x86
>>
>> we have 3 of them already there at maintainer-entry-profile.rst:
>>
>>    $ grep process/ Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
>>    ../process/maintainer-soc
>>    ../process/maintainer-soc-clean-dts
>>    ../process/maintainer-netdev
>>
>> It sounds to me that moving maintainer-tip and maintainer-kvm-x86
>> to maintainer-entry-profile.rst would be enough to drop
>> maintainer-handbooks.rst, keeping them consolidated on a single
>> place.
> 
> Yes, maybe. How about in the other direction:
> move them all to maintainer-handbooks.rst?
> 
> After all, maintainer-entry-profile.rst says:
>   For now, existing maintainer profiles are listed here; we will likely want
>   to do something different in the near future.
> 
> Also, does anyone know why some of these profiles are numbered and some
> are not?  See
>   https://docs.kernel.org/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.html#existing-profiles
> for odd numbering.

Because they are numbered in their own respective documentation areas...

-- 
~Randy