linux-kernel - Re: Bad MAINTAINERS pattern in section 'STAGING

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Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:46:49 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Bad MAINTAINERS pattern in section 'STAGING - FLARION FT1000
 DRIVERS'

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 03:04:23PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Please fix this defect appropriately.
> 
> linux-next MAINTAINERS section:
> 
> 	13899	STAGING - FLARION FT1000 DRIVERS
> 	13900	M:	Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@...il.com>
> 	13901	S:	Odd Fixes
> -->	13902	F:	drivers/staging/ft1000/
> 
> Commit that introduced this:
> 
> commit a0138163cfbfdfbdc20e4477c77bd7046bd66bb4
>  Author: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
>  Date:   Tue Jul 5 15:21:34 2011 -0700
>  
>      MAINTAINERS: Add remaining staging entries
>      
>      Add the staging entries from various TODO files
>      to MAINTAINERS.  Add a few web links as well.
>      
>      Miscellaneous staging typo section header fix.
>      
>      Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
>      Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
>  
>   MAINTAINERS | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 68 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

So you are going to fix this, considering you created the problem?

This is an odd request to make of yourself in public, or was this a
script gone wrong?

confused,

greg k-h