linux-kernel - Re: Bad MAINTAINERS pattern in section 'LOCKING PRIMITIVES'

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Message-ID: <20181001142856.GC9716@arm.com>
Date:   Mon, 1 Oct 2018 15:28:56 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Jason Low <jason.low2@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Bad MAINTAINERS pattern in section 'LOCKING PRIMITIVES'

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 02:54:36PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Please fix this defect appropriately.

Patch below, which was probably less effort to write than your report ;)

Will

--->8

>From 867b47473ad490c21591378a7041fe7c06b71b59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 14:47:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove dead path from LOCKING PRIMITIVES entry

Since 890658b7ab48 ("locking/mutex: Kill arch specific code"), there
are no mutex header files under arch/, so we can remove the redundant
entry from MAINTAINERS.

Reported-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index d870cb57c887..276c32df137a 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -8582,7 +8582,6 @@ F:	include/linux/spinlock*.h
 F:	arch/*/include/asm/spinlock*.h
 F:	include/linux/rwlock*.h
 F:	include/linux/mutex*.h
-F:	arch/*/include/asm/mutex*.h
 F:	include/linux/rwsem*.h
 F:	arch/*/include/asm/rwsem.h
 F:	include/linux/seqlock.h
-- 
2.1.4