Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS tag for cleanup robot

[Joe Perches]

(removing almost all the cc: lists and leaving scsi and lkml)

On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 10:02 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 09:18 -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 08:50 -0800, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > A difficult part of automating commits is composing the subsystem
> > > preamble in the commit log.  For the ongoing effort of a fixer
> > > producing one or two fixes a release the use of 'treewide:' does
> > > not seem appropriate.
> > > 
> > > It would be better if the normal prefix was used.  Unfortunately
> > > normal is not consistent across the tree.
> > > 
> > > 	D: Commit subsystem prefix
> > > 
> > > ex/ for FPGA DFL DRIVERS
> > > 
> > > 	D: fpga: dfl:
> > 
> > I've got to bet this is going to cause more issues than it solves. 
> > SCSI uses scsi: <driver>: for drivers but not every driver has a
> > MAINTAINERS entry.  We use either scsi: or scsi: core: for mid layer
> > things, but we're not consistent.  Block uses blk-<something>: for all
> > of it's stuff but almost no <somtehing>s have a MAINTAINERS entry.  So
> > the next thing you're going to cause is an explosion of suggested
> > MAINTAINERs entries.
> 
> As well as some changes require simultaneous changes across
> multiple subsystems.

Perhaps a start of this would be something like the below for a new
MAINTAINERS entry just for SCSI CORE.

This adds an "E:" patch prefix entry as well as a specific file
list for what seem to be "scsi core" files so that the generic
SCSI SUBSYSTEM F:drivers/scsi/ entry does not have to be used.

The SCSI SUBSYSTEM could have an E: entry of "scsi:" so that
driver specific content could be automatically prefixed with
"scsi: <basename(dirname)>:
---
 MAINTAINERS | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 5f10105cac6f..68521abd1bd8 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15631,6 +15631,24 @@ S:	Maintained
 W:	http://www.kernel.dk
 F:	drivers/scsi/sr*
 
+SCSI CORE
+M:	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+M:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
+L:	linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+S:	Maintained
+Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-scsi/list/
+T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git
+T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git
+E:	"scsi: core:"
+F:	include/linux/scsi*
+F:	drivers/scsi/constants.c
+F:	drivers/scsi/hosts.c
+F:	drivers/scsi/scsi.*
+F:	drivers/scsi/scsi_*
+F:	drivers/scsi/sd.c
+F:	drivers/scsi/sense_codes.h
+F:	drivers/scsi/sr.c
+
 SCSI RDMA PROTOCOL (SRP) INITIATOR
 M:	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
 L:	linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx