On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 08:33:40PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:

On Mon, 2021-11-15 at 14:39 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:

quoted

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 12:16:53PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:

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Maybe we should just remove MAINTAINERS from stable trees to make it
obvious.

I don't think we should go quite that far. Instead, perhaps we can
modify get_maintainer.pl (if needed) such that it prints out a warning
or reminder to consult the upstream MAINTAINERS file if the script is
invoked on an older stable kernel.

I don't see how that's feasible.

Not that I'm pushing for this change, but isn't it straight-forward to
distinguish upstream and stable kernel releases based on their
versioning schemes? The SUBLEVEL in the Makefile is always 0 for
upstream, and positive for stable versions (ignoring ancient kernels
like v2.6.32, of course). Since stable kernels are behind mainline by
definition, anytime the get_maintainer.pl script is invoked on a
kernel with a positive SUBLEVEL value, we can print out the said
warning/reminder (if it is considered useful).

Regards,
Srivatsa
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