Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751899AbdHGCRL (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2017 22:17:11 -0400 Received: from mail-pg0-f66.google.com ([74.125.83.66]:33754 "EHLO mail-pg0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751422AbdHGCRK (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2017 22:17:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] get_maintainer: Prepare for separate MAINTAINERS files To: Joe Perches , Linus Torvalds References: <51db101dddcde3115a6e834293cb1d79a2381a68.1501907539.git.joe@perches.com> Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Frank Rowand Message-ID: <5987CD91.6000503@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 19:16:49 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <51db101dddcde3115a6e834293cb1d79a2381a68.1501907539.git.joe@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 28 On 08/04/17 21:45, Joe Perches wrote: > Allow for MAINTAINERS to become a directory and if it is, > read all the files in the directory for maintained sections. > > Optionally look for all files named MAINTAINERS in directories > excluding the .git directory by using --find-maintainer-files. > > This optional feature adds ~.3 seconds of CPU on an Intel > i5-6200 with an SSD. > > Miscellanea: > > o Create a read_maintainer_file subroutine from the existing code > o Test only the existence of MAINTAINERS, not whether it's a file > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches > --- < snip > Hi Joe, In the three versions of this patch, I have not seen any description of what is wrong with the current single MAINTAINERS file, or why the proposed change is an improvement. Could you please add that information? -Frank