On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 10:18 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
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:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 12:16:53PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
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).
checkpatch doesn't work on trees, it works on patches.