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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm throwing out _one_ idea: split it up by the main F: line, so that
> maintainership information ends up being hierarchical like the Kconfig
> files.  Teach "get_maintainer.pl" to just do "find . -name
> MAINTAINERS" instead?

For a more radical change, get rid of the MAINTAINERS file entirely,
and put the information into the Kconfig files - kind of like the
"help" text, except with the rules.

It's probably not really workable, but in many ways the maintainership
often tends to more closely match the configuration than the tree
layout, and some of the fields would actually make sense for the help
thing (eg the whole support status, but also the web-page with
status/info pointer).

Again - just throwing this out as a "please discuss" thing.

                Linus