Masahiro Yamada stepped down as Kbuild and Kconfig maintainer in
commit 8d6841d5cb20 ("MAINTAINERS: hand over Kbuild maintenance"),
leaving Kconfig officially orphaned and handing Kbuild over to Nicolas
and myself. Since then, there have been a few simple patches to Kconfig
that have ended up on the linux-kbuild mailing list without clear
direction on who will take them, as they are not really sent to anybody
officially, although the list is obviously watched by the Kbuild
maintainers.

Make Nicolas and I official maintainers of Kconfig in "Odd Fixes"
status, similiar to Kbuild, so that the subsystem has clear points of
contact for contributors, even if significant contributions may not be
accepted.

Additionally, add the Kbuild tree to this section.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
---
We are going to de facto maintain this so we might as well make it
official :) I will take this via kbuild-fixes at some point.
---
 MAINTAINERS | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 545a4776795e..1471e1bf1510 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -13415,9 +13415,12 @@ F:	mm/kasan/
 F:	scripts/Makefile.kasan
 
 KCONFIG
+M:	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
+M:	Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
 L:	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Orphan
+S:	Odd Fixes
 Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/list/
+T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux.git
 F:	Documentation/kbuild/kconfig*
 F:	scripts/Kconfig.include
 F:	scripts/kconfig/

---
base-commit: 211ddde0823f1442e4ad052a2f30f050145ccada
change-id: 20251023-update-kconfig-maintainers-d637e7abb2fd

Best regards,
--  
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:25:20 +0200, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Masahiro Yamada stepped down as Kbuild and Kconfig maintainer in
> commit 8d6841d5cb20 ("MAINTAINERS: hand over Kbuild maintenance"),
> leaving Kconfig officially orphaned and handing Kbuild over to Nicolas
> and myself. Since then, there have been a few simple patches to Kconfig
> that have ended up on the linux-kbuild mailing list without clear
> direction on who will take them, as they are not really sent to anybody
> officially, although the list is obviously watched by the Kbuild
> maintainers.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] MAINTAINERS: Update Kconfig section
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/dfab67879bed6

Best regards,
-- 
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 09:25:20PM +0200, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Masahiro Yamada stepped down as Kbuild and Kconfig maintainer in
> commit 8d6841d5cb20 ("MAINTAINERS: hand over Kbuild maintenance"),
> leaving Kconfig officially orphaned and handing Kbuild over to Nicolas
> and myself. Since then, there have been a few simple patches to Kconfig
> that have ended up on the linux-kbuild mailing list without clear
> direction on who will take them, as they are not really sent to anybody
> officially, although the list is obviously watched by the Kbuild
> maintainers.
> 
> Make Nicolas and I official maintainers of Kconfig in "Odd Fixes"
> status, similiar to Kbuild, so that the subsystem has clear points of
> contact for contributors, even if significant contributions may not be
> accepted.
> 
> Additionally, add the Kbuild tree to this section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> ---
> We are going to de facto maintain this so we might as well make it
> official :) I will take this via kbuild-fixes at some point.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 545a4776795e..1471e1bf1510 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -13415,9 +13415,12 @@ F:	mm/kasan/
>  F:	scripts/Makefile.kasan
>  
>  KCONFIG
> +M:	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> +M:	Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>

yes, that seems to be best for now.  Can you please use my @k.o address?

M:	Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>

Kind regards!

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 09:55:31PM +0200, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 09:25:20PM +0200, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> yes, that seems to be best for now.  Can you please use my @k.o address?
> 
> M:	Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>

Ack, do you want to send a separate change updating the Kbuild section
(and maybe .mailmap if you desire)? Does not feel right to put it in
this change.

Cheers,
Nathan

On 10/23/25 12:25 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Masahiro Yamada stepped down as Kbuild and Kconfig maintainer in
> commit 8d6841d5cb20 ("MAINTAINERS: hand over Kbuild maintenance"),
> leaving Kconfig officially orphaned and handing Kbuild over to Nicolas
> and myself. Since then, there have been a few simple patches to Kconfig
> that have ended up on the linux-kbuild mailing list without clear
> direction on who will take them, as they are not really sent to anybody
> officially, although the list is obviously watched by the Kbuild
> maintainers.
> 
> Make Nicolas and I official maintainers of Kconfig in "Odd Fixes"
> status, similiar to Kbuild, so that the subsystem has clear points of
> contact for contributors, even if significant contributions may not be
> accepted.
> 
> Additionally, add the Kbuild tree to this section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Thanks.

> ---
> We are going to de facto maintain this so we might as well make it
> official :) I will take this via kbuild-fixes at some point.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 545a4776795e..1471e1bf1510 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -13415,9 +13415,12 @@ F:	mm/kasan/
>  F:	scripts/Makefile.kasan
>  
>  KCONFIG
> +M:	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> +M:	Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
>  L:	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
> -S:	Orphan
> +S:	Odd Fixes
>  Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/list/
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux.git
>  F:	Documentation/kbuild/kconfig*
>  F:	scripts/Kconfig.include
>  F:	scripts/kconfig/
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 211ddde0823f1442e4ad052a2f30f050145ccada
> change-id: 20251023-update-kconfig-maintainers-d637e7abb2fd
> 
> Best regards,
> --  
> Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> 
> 

-- 
~Randy