linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Limit KVM RISC-V entry to existing selftests

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Date:   Wed, 1 Jun 2022 16:13:57 +0530
From:   Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        KVM General <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Limit KVM RISC-V entry to existing selftests

On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 2:21 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Commit fed9b26b2501 ("MAINTAINERS: Update KVM RISC-V entry to cover
> selftests support") optimistically adds a file entry for
> tools/testing/selftests/kvm/riscv/, but this directory does not exist.
>
> Hence, ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --self-test=patterns complains about a
> broken reference. The script is very useful to keep MAINTAINERS up to date
> and MAINTAINERS can be kept in a state where the script emits no warning.
>
> So, just drop the non-matching file entry rather than starting to collect
> exceptions of entries that may match in some close or distant future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
> ---
> Anup, please consider to pick this minor clean-up patch.

Sure, I will include this as fix for 5.19-rcX

Thanks,
Anup

>
>  MAINTAINERS | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 36eab5ae237d..a8eee9d2aea5 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -10863,7 +10863,6 @@ F:      arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm*
>  F:     arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/kvm*
>  F:     arch/riscv/kvm/
>  F:     tools/testing/selftests/kvm/*/riscv/
> -F:     tools/testing/selftests/kvm/riscv/
>
>  KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE for s390 (KVM/s390)
>  M:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>
> --
> 2.17.1
>