Re: [PATCH docs v2] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 10:00 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We appear to have a gap in our process docs. We go into detail
> on how to contribute code to the kernel, and how to be a subsystem
> maintainer. I can't find any docs directed towards the thousands
> of small scale maintainers, like folks maintaining a single driver
> or a single network protocol.

I think the split is great. It would be even better if this
distinction could be made in MAINTAINERS and then the tools could use
that. For example, on treewide changes on Cc subsystem maintainers and
skip driver maintainers. The problem right now is Cc'ing everyone
quickly hits maillist moderation for too many recipients.

Rob