linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers for MIPS core drivers

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Message-ID: <CAHp75Vej9gRAVspzfruciQ7weFunNBtj8GxbgBCVWtGwk5_ntQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 1 Jun 2020 19:04:51 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...tec.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers for MIPS core drivers

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 6:52 PM Serge Semin
<Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 06:30:22PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 6:19 PM Serge Semin
> > <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 04:56:21PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 3:26 PM Serge Semin
> > > > <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Add myself as a maintainer of MIPS CPU and GIC IRQchip, MIPS GIC timer
> > > > > and MIPS CPS CPUidle drivers.
> > > > ...
> > > > > +MIPS CORE DRIVERS
> > > > > +M:     Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
> > > > > +L:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org
> > > > > +S:     Supported
> > > > > +F:     drivers/bus/mips_cdmm.c
> > > > > +F:     drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c
> > > > > +F:     drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c
> > > > > +F:     drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c
> > > > > +F:     drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-cps.c
> > > >
> > > > I think nowadays checkpatch.pl warns on wrong ordering in this data base.
> > >
> > > Alas it doesn't.
> >
>
> > Ah, it definitely will.
> > it was relatively recently added by:
> > commit 9bbce40a4f72fe01a65669aee9f4036baa7fa26e
> > Author: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> > Date:   Tue May 26 10:36:34 2020 +1000
> >
> >    checkpatch: additional MAINTAINER section entry ordering checks
> >
> >
> > > Good point though.
> >
> > You're welcome.
>
> Next time I won't forget that then. BTW the notes at the top of the MAINTAINERS
> file don't explicitly say about the files-list order. Only about the
> whole maintainers list entries order. Seeing the rest of the sub-entries like
> L:, M:, etc. aren't ordered then it's probably better to have an explicit
> statement, that files should be alphabetically listed, especially when
> checkpatch.pl starts warning about that.

Joe, what do you think?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko