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

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Message-ID: <aQB2t3gD8cQ0fJv0@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:54:31 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 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, Oct 27, 2025 at 08:45:08AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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 $maintainer_in_file_types = '\.(?:yaml|dts.?|rst)$';

Please, do that. I have no idea where all these Perl files do the necessary bits.
But currently we have a problem (false positives) with checkpatch, and some
maintainers dislike them.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko