linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: adjust to filesystem doc ReST conversion

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Date:   Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:24:59 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: adjust to filesystem doc ReST conversion

On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 13:10 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed,  4 Mar 2020 08:29:50 +0100
> Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:
[]
> > ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --self-test complains with 27
> > warnings on Documentation/filesystems/ of this kind:
> > 
> >   warning: no file matches F: Documentation/filesystems/...
[]
> Sigh, I need to work a MAINTAINERS check into my workflow...

checkpatch already bleats a warning on patches with any
file move or rename.

It would be difficult to impossible to implement a real
pattern verification mechanism in checkpatch though.