From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0015.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5C5B286A7 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:04:18 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.15 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783847060; cv=none; b=sbXDCZJz1A+Kmx4bf6RwVySqss05KS2cfWe+Y6IgB0zi7ayHNhvjz8vrqacMdcx8ce+0bA+JWsnTpxc5Yi6qfsGanoMqCvDHdjWpa0Pq0CizzweU4T3dapzgLLORcIra/DxOkGAx2vBskvkVUk2KHp6M+ypc1H1bn4uJw8uonmA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783847060; c=relaxed/simple; bh=+F8i0o5I85aVW6371vCo3Oe987hr3CLNkqJ4SbAdaTs=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:MIME-Version; b=D6tpwUR07KpF8GN4Ypuc7GDm8oEzXKdIyr8cmDvPH8B6urBhbWz68iw8w4zZB5tVPWpoZTYr+/KAuUIrPxb8OV+PC+6vrX/3B1+eT4SXTb+IF/kXCW1smtF4X0auoJHnjvL15dzYxE1tbDrc9UVs4hb1xZwqlYypYP6vJu+lBrA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.15 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com Received: from omf18.hostedemail.com (lb01a-stub [10.200.18.249]) by unirelay01.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590411C4177; Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf18.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 018A82E; Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1e63b7af71b174b24212831532c94d49877441e3.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: MAINTAINERS: warn on missing paths From: Joe Perches To: Eugene Mavick , Andy Whitcroft , Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:04:08 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20260712-chkpatch-file-entries-v1-1-68bcf96ff59e@mavick.dev> References: <20260712-chkpatch-file-entries-v1-1-68bcf96ff59e@mavick.dev> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.58.3 (3.58.3-1.fc43) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Stat-Signature: rrz5h78zqhe7f1617dbdejmpyxdugq7s X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout04 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 018A82E X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX19tf9qYB62Dgp0f3lyrsGqL6y9mNgQqK3E= X-HE-Tag: 1783847049-115097 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX1+eSwceuaAZzcTPoDJwev299HYA2ehmQzBZTpo5I2kCS1U3/S/0t3SHqBX7hft6RTcx1ZgvLaiila4rGs1Mg05j86njVAAesXs9OiSf7n085iRMrHa4l6SlPBGzJujrBVFAJnH79NTdorAaLXwWdIbYVtfsSqslzKYYPger4gw9wdywSjzbeH/9NNyaPTTJoXA1r5WbwcErAW1Cv5Luk8Eqqde4GFsftyxfsr28SQFeOQdeFSfYURggu3/6sSnbXtxpNHIa4BcKHWzWsQlfly4payGY7YJ41eNIPZ8CIaCN3y9aN4qtWNil On Sun, 2026-07-12 at 16:14 +0800, Eugene Mavick wrote: > ``` > Warn when F: or X: entries point to nonexistent files or patterns. > There have been instances of typos in file entries in the past, and this > patch helps prevents that. Just fyi: if you care to do something about the missing MAINTAINER file patterns $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --self-test=3Dpatterns ./MAINTAINERS:2764: warning: no file matches F: arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/ts72xx= .c ./MAINTAINERS:7654: warning: no file matches F: include/linux/dma-buf/ ./MAINTAINERS:7897: warning: no file matches F: include/linux/drbd* ./MAINTAINERS:10017: warning: no file matches F: include/linux/fs_types.h ./MAINTAINERS:12694: warning: no file matches F: drivers/gpu/drm/ci/xfails/= powervr* ./MAINTAINERS:16731: warning: no file matches F: Documentation/devicetree/b= indings/display/bridge/megachips-stdpxxxx-ge-b850v3-fw.txt ./MAINTAINERS:21913: warning: no file matches F: sound/arm/pxa* ./MAINTAINERS:22364: warning: no file matches F: include/dt-bindings/media/= *qcom* ./MAINTAINERS:25130: warning: no file matches F: tools/testing/selftests/ne= t/so_txtime.c ./MAINTAINERS:25342: warning: no file matches F: Documentation/devicetree/b= indings/media/i2c/sony,imx678.yaml ./MAINTAINERS:28376: warning: no file matches F: include/linux/vsi-iommu.h