linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for xilinx-ams

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Message-ID: <33ca60945b7945ff08ae295a4d683ebe99e41d46.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:06:54 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Anand Ashok Dumbre <ANANDASH@...inx.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jic23@...nel.org, lars@...afoo.de,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, git <git@...inx.com>,
        Michal Simek <michals@...inx.com>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        rafael@...nel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for xilinx-ams

On Wed, 2021-11-17 at 21:28 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:46:20AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On 2021-11-17 09:08, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 6:05 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > What do you think checkpatch is supposed to find?
> > 
> > > To me AMS should precede AXI and not the other way around. Agree?
> > 
> > Sure but checkpatch just looks at patches and doesn't inspect the patched
> > file, apply the patch then look at the result. The patch itself looks fine.
> 
> I see, checkpatch simply doesn't have such functionality and maintainers should
> ask people to rung parse-maintainers.pl from time to time…

I asked Linus to do that before every -rc1 and he demurred.

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