linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/13] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for the bitmap API

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Date:   Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:29:58 -0700
From:   Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Klimov <aklimov@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Jianpeng Ma <jianpeng.ma@...el.com>,
        John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/13] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for the bitmap API

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 07:40:04AM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 5:57 AM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 21:47 -0700, Yury Norov wrote:
> > > [CC Andy Whitcroft, Joe Perches, Dwaipayan Ray, Lukas Bulwahn]
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:45:51PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 06:54:24PM -0700, Yury Norov wrote:
> > > > > Add myself as maintainer for bitmap API and Andy and Rasmus as reviewers.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm an author of current implementation of lib/find_bit and an active
> > > > > contributor to lib/bitmap. It was spotted that there's no maintainer for
> > > > > bitmap API. I'm willing to maintain it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
> > > > > Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> > > > > Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  MAINTAINERS | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > > > >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > > index 3dd20015696e..44f94cdd5a20 100644
> > > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > > @@ -3151,6 +3151,22 @@ F: Documentation/filesystems/bfs.rst
> > > > >  F:       fs/bfs/
> > > > >  F:       include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > +BITMAP API
> > > > > +M:       Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
> > > > > +R:       Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> > > > > +R:       Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
> > > > > +S:       Maintained
> > > > > +F:       include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h
> > > > > +F:       include/linux/bitmap.h
> > > > > +F:       lib/bitmap.c
> > > > > +F:       lib/find_bit.c
> > > >
> > > > > +F:       lib/find_find_bit_benchmark.c
> > > >
> > > > Does this file exist?
> > > > I guess checkpatch.pl nowadays has a MAINTAINER data base validation.
> > >
> > > No lib/find_find_bit_benchmark.c doesn't exist. It's a typo, it should
> > > be lib/find_bit_benchmark.c. Checkpatch doesn't warn:
> > >
> > > yury:linux$ scripts/checkpatch.pl 0013-MAINTAINERS-Add-entry-for-the-bitmap-API.patch
> > > total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 22 lines checked
> >
> > checkpatch does not validate filenames for each patch.
> >
> > checkpatch does have a --self-test=patterns capability that does
> > validate file accessibility.
> 
> Joe meant: get_maintainers does have a --self-test=patterns capability
> that does validate file accessibility.
> 
> You can run that before patch submission; otherwise, I run that script
> on linux-next once a week and send out correction patches as far as my
> "spare" time allows to do so.

Thanks for the hint. I see it's able to detect the issue.