linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 4/4] MAINTAINERS: Remove powerpc's opal match

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Date:   Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:14:36 -0700
From:   Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@...el.com>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Rafael Antognolli <rafael.antognolli@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Scott Bauer <scott.bauer@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 4/4] MAINTAINERS: Remove powerpc's opal match

Thanks everyone. Sorry about the mess :)

On 02/15/2017 10:23 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@...el.com> writes:
> 
>> PPC's 'opal' match pattern also matches block/sed-opal.c, where it looks
>> like the 'arch/powerpc' file pattern should be enough to match powerpc
>> opal code by itself. Remove the opal regex pattern from powerpc.
> 
> We thought of it first.
> 
> Can't you just rename your driver, Opal Storage Specification, so "oss",
> that should be pretty unique?
> 
> ... :)
> 
> I don't like this version, but I'll merge the one from Stewart which
> drops the pattern and adds the paths for the existing drivers.
> 
> cheers
> 
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index b983b25..430dd02 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -7404,7 +7404,6 @@ F:	drivers/pci/hotplug/pnv_php.c
>>  F:	drivers/pci/hotplug/rpa*
>>  F:	drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/
>>  F:	tools/testing/selftests/powerpc
>> -N:	opal
>>  N:	/pmac
>>  N:	powermac
>>  N:	powernv
>> -- 
>> 1.8.3.1