linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: enable MAINTAINERS warning only for --strict,--subjective

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Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:26:27 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <realty@...ches.com>
To:	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>
Cc:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: enable MAINTAINERS warning only for
 --strict,--subjective

On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 07:53 -0800, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 23:35 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> >> The rule which delivers this warning is very prone to errors:
> >>   "added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?"
> >> so it should not be enabled by default.
> >
> > I don't think so.
> >
> > It's _far_ more common for people to forget to
> > update MAINTAINERS so I think it's quite useful
> > even if it's slightly noisy.
> 
> In a recent submission I saw a bunch of these warnings too, even
> though I had already added MAINTAINERS entries.
> 
> If this is just a friendly reminder ("hey, please double-check X
> before you send") rather than an indication that a suspected problem
> was detected in the patch, perhaps it would be better if it lived in
> Documentation/SubmitChecklist?

An entry might help.

Submit a patch to SubmitChecklist and see if the
overall MAINTAINERS patterns error rate changes
over a few release cycles.

Another thing that might help you not see these
by creating a .checkpatch.conf file and adding:
"--ignore=FILE_PATH_CHANGES"



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