linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: merge entries for felix and ocelot drivers

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:37:10 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com, claudiu.manoil@....com,
        alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        vivien.didelot@...il.com, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: merge entries for felix and ocelot
 drivers

On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 01:07:53 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> 
> The ocelot switchdev driver also provides a set of library functions for
> the felix DSA driver, which in practice means that most of the patches
> will be of interest to both groups of driver maintainers.
> 
> So, as also suggested in the discussion here, let's merge the 2 entries
> into a single larger one:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg657412.html
> 
> Note that the entry has been renamed into "OCELOT SWITCH" since neither
> Vitesse nor Microsemi exist any longer as company names, instead they
> are now named Microchip (which again might be subject to change in the
> future), so use the device family name instead.
> 
> Suggested-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Looks like checkpatch is unhappy about the order of files?

WARNING: Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list file patterns in alphabetic order
#58: FILE: MAINTAINERS:12308:
+F:	include/soc/mscc/ocelot*
+F:	drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/

WARNING: Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list file patterns in alphabetic order
#59: FILE: MAINTAINERS:12309:
+F:	drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/
+F:	drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/*

total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 0 checks, 46 lines checked