From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C921933985; Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1775952179; cv=none; b=Am4EzpErnJyEX4O72XHNh9qwjrlS9RzsXUMBUIl9bZ7yBt8EE0F+MFDjxkHJJG4DiF/E9uBaLFKfJQXgNm9eQTL8toGo45Fe8OBd61/NcZXbA59I45neqjrB8Ga1+PNo0/q0B+UD35oWtakRaoAE23h+Q2MPjuz4htR6o5Eqv7M= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1775952179; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Hp9U7vnuz9gzAYjCtfVPRdjtc4p7/vdeGvWgu8SaH0Y=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:From:To:Cc:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=ZdWwelqPVcdiHQnKvE0JSLT5P8HStL0fyJOUdaTsTuaL3pvSXcPoNpg3oNo0yDNaVYSQGKUA8iqPoJ+9EigOzPAgcXrxAldYh8deQfhYG7eedDraMNkWHGUedIhf3NC7Ox2I5ha2WXTIXrBHnGS8gVUmgV7jHVURRpxQLYrB1kY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=ull8X6F5; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="ull8X6F5" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:References:Cc:To:From:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=xYV0z2MkuxdauR6WLoTXIg3DnfOmBbz6bOdf6SWJE9c=; b=ull8X6F5PfnIssMX01Hhv4bTty xIC4GpJ03ogn9spqTfvLpUkMT/RJxmqLBoVI8hH4BqLPyubW8I9EVC0KN7RuWy+athqNrSIoR3j3k S8Rb8biognb5wFW+bFy9OOHsuBU7XJ+A9dUgTqZhdt5JGzPH9HlP9gu0LOi1FIjdoZW7blUZ0fPPS L7K5IWzri1BSzdJ+zdmUZ7xrPWGWguvTL1TBrqJv9HAO5HqKppz2l9YS2jG3cfMpKrTQ9t3S404bU Jb6380tNZvS7pZeOHvl695pXwv6r1Ekqg4ALNoBmCzsOgxL/0U4fXIhGDr9UO7sCWq9aVlMdgBosc WVUpYqjw==; Received: from [50.53.43.113] (helo=[192.168.254.34]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1wBiHx-0000000Dts4-1ZLa; Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:02:57 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:02:56 -0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: maintainer profiles From: Randy Dunlap To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Linux Documentation , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jonathan Corbet , Linux Kernel Workflows References: <20260410101239.04c87f26@foz.lan> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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