Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Just for ease of manipulation and not breaking the script much,
> I'd suggest just having a MAINTAINERS directory and stuffing
> each of the sections into separate files.
>
> The script would only need to add $ cat MAINTAINERS/* as input.

So I don't mind the idea of just making MAINTAINERS a directory, but I
don't think we want to so far as to make one file per entry. That's
what, 1500+ files tiny files or so? Seems a bit excessive.

Maybe we can just do the prefix thing and just do 26 files A-Z
instead? Or maybe go by first word (so all the ARM things would go in
one place?)

A couple of hundred files sounds fine. A couple of thousand files
sound a bit excessive..

             Linus