On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:54:53 -0600 Rob Herring wrote:

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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.

Interesting idea. I wonder how much of this can be accomplished by
improvements to get_maintainers and interpreting what we already have.
There are inverse annoyances, too, where patches for subsystems get
CCed all the way up the hierarchy and including linux-kernel@
for not apparent reason. We have to go sprinkle X: entries in
MAINTAINERS currently to prevent it.

In any case, I think that's a bit tangential. I sent a v3 already
'cause people kept reporting the same typoes :)