Re: maintainer profiles

[Randy Dunlap]

Hi,

On 4/10/26 1:12 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 17:18:39 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there supposed to be a difference (or distinction) in the contents of
>>
>> Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst
>> and
>> Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
>> ?
>>
>> Can they be combined into one location?
> 
> Heh, from the 5 entries at maintainer-handbooks.rst:
> 
>    maintainer-netdev
>    maintainer-soc
>    maintainer-soc-clean-dts
>    maintainer-tip
>    maintainer-kvm-x86
> 
> we have 3 of them already there at maintainer-entry-profile.rst:
> 
>    $ grep process/ Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
>    ../process/maintainer-soc
>    ../process/maintainer-soc-clean-dts
>    ../process/maintainer-netdev
> 
> It sounds to me that moving maintainer-tip and maintainer-kvm-x86
> to maintainer-entry-profile.rst would be enough to drop
> maintainer-handbooks.rst, keeping them consolidated on a single
> place.

Yes, maybe. How about in the other direction:
move them all to maintainer-handbooks.rst?

After all, maintainer-entry-profile.rst says:
  For now, existing maintainer profiles are listed here; we will likely want
  to do something different in the near future.

Also, does anyone know why some of these profiles are numbered and some
are not?  See
  https://docs.kernel.org/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.html#existing-profiles
for odd numbering.

thanks.
-- 
~Randy