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 07AD1213E7A; Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:54:00 +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=1775951642; cv=none; b=DmVVmaTog3p1Bpb8ExmF7sTCvhj32cAFbAOytPfsPsQauZwN8yYRrsBi1gzFba6vn4rZjKplpoM2WM7ree1XMK9yefeEkCpKWN+mhACett4xFfNl51vAgW8M3ze1Bpnnys21vKTVawz+vpC81PHTzDhYW6jEoQ41nxsqlg+AvBg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1775951642; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Dg3eabWS5jdPjdJ7DmahxrQkq8UHpRr4d3JdFrBD7gA=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=H8MH2QnBBrgrGibSL30SsmZ8Nwbyse3Lz6i3U4d0U+8Obr3kE6BtegmRai3Tsic3ScACvXZzGFwLCAEN8I4qC7Z7G4mjenfCpIAJ9EtkSH9wtBpHe7rUOTxLYCa1zEYP6Y1Ogp0JSnN5MHGEAcTgZ6IMLBERhzi6ikiqNa05p7I= 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=vPrG5ClW; 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="vPrG5ClW" 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:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=a21D2mEaR49HM+018yMEjZFvKYwCEV59EYaWrU9+pbk=; b=vPrG5ClWyjTBpUrhmgMSrPfIsu zAp5hnvKYAYaxn1mY+UGNrE04gQ6rmV3OwKPx1A8LEhldOkUsy6OqVm/mq0nuZRJMmJJBrxofeSsF SjmR1wy2QNWFAr3UWXMAy4TygHxi/q9gbarrwVl7Sld7+LTjJXdTUA15ah9xS+TnpSkvIX/jyoF4R lXByajyjQT7sytPF8N4r3n+ZCkE3wq+prXXCPFNgkJYrggDGrOReLlLZ9ndlwX+4XzIUbQ300oaCZ BoMDJDIYpcGvZP2F3bI085iuD55bW0P+N3WOu+yAGue3E2Tmq1clWCg3/8xpRzJEUFpJhT+utMtL7 urS5yjEw==; 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 1wBi9I-0000000DtcN-2cjw; Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:54:00 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:54:00 -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 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 From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <20260410101239.04c87f26@foz.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. thanks. -- ~Randy