linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] checkpatch: Don't warn on "orhapned" DT schema file

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Message-ID: <4484f1dfe22c9ca6dcad52d915a92f600d0088e1.camel@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:45:08 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, Dwaipayan Ray
 <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,  Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
 Akhilesh Patil <akhilesh@...iitb.ac.in>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] checkpatch: Don't warn on "orhapned" DT schema
 file

On Mon, 2025-10-27 at 10:36 +0100, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Currently checkpatch warns is the DT schema file is absent in MAINTAINERS.
> However the DT schema files are self-contained in this sense and
> have embedded information about maintainers of it. This is a requirement.
> Hence, avoid checkpatch warning about it.
> 
> Tested-by: Akhilesh Patil <akhilesh@...iitb.ac.in>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>

nackish.

Perhaps it'd be better to make checkpatch and get_maintainer have
some list of filename suffixes that are expected to have embedded
maintainer email addresses

Maybe something like:

our $maintainer_in_file_types = '\.(?:yaml|dts.?|rst)$';