From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934260AbcA0SDM (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:03:12 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0022.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.22]:40013 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933910AbcA0SDG (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:03:06 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:982:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1381:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1540:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2194:2199:2393:2553:2559:2562:2828:2908:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:4250:4321:5007:6261:9108:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12517:12519:12740:13069:13095:13161:13229:13311:13357:13894:14659:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:2,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: songs35_7209cf686b601 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1781 Message-ID: <1453917782.10099.14.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: Question about create mode, checkpatch, and MAINTAINERS From: Joe Perches To: Jeff Merkey , LKML Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:03:02 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.3-1ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 10:52 -0700, Jeff Merkey wrote: > So while putting together a patch series that adds some include files > in the arch/ I ran across the checkpatch WARNING that says MAINTAINERS > needs updating for new files with create mode. > Is the best way to do this to submit MAINTAINERS as a separate patch > or in its own patch with the series, or can I just send the patch > series to the current MAINTAINERS of those arches and skip this add > maintainers and ignore the checkpatch WARNING for this. You can ignore it. The checkpatch message is just a prompt.  It asks "does MAINTAINERS need updating"?  The checkpatch message is just asking to consider whether or not MAINTAINERS needs updating.  MAINTAINERS may not need updating at all. > From what I have seen, its not a good idea to ignore anything > checkpatch reports. It's always better to ignore mechanized messages from brainless scripts when you know what you're doing.