linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/ata/pata_mpc52xx.c: add missing kfree

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Date:	Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:22:40 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Anatolij Gustschin <agust@...x.de>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/ata/pata_mpc52xx.c: add missing kfree

On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 19:44 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > Anatolij is not listed as a maintainer for this file
> > nor has he ever written or signed a patch for it.
> I noticed that Grant was in CC, assumed that it was because of his previous MPC
> maintainership and mentioned that Anatolij took over. Nothing more, just wanted
> to help.

Actually, it's because there's a K: of_get_property
line in OPEN FIRMWARE and the file has one.

I suppose that get_maintainers could be told to
ignore K: entries when using -f <file>.

> > It'd be possible to add patterns to MAINTAINERS
> > if Anatolij really wants to see changes to drivers.
> It seems a bit too much for my taste (hardly readable? false positives?),

There are no false positives as far as I can tell.
Just using *mpc5* doesn't give any either today.
It's perlish so the whole thing is gibberish anyway.


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