From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0016.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.16]) (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 BA460352C35 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:28:07 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.16 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783844889; cv=none; b=ExllwTneXzZwrOhqX8TpE5V/8w9qiuA+nwvLW1tPF57ObLlFIYKCkAtqerN0KiwQnrUNWGz4WOzaUUgTxlkezwUV195N5f7hNd/ui5Q+Rahh/y4KEfERWR9yP+++0TKWjp0C94eFwR2fcpID0Qa4VMGJka0xtI4vzDfGHISErpo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783844889; c=relaxed/simple; bh=y6crC8bZY/ADTbzc2R2vGuryvxfJmH6ZRUqCc2v1bGI=; h=MIME-Version:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References: Message-ID:Content-Type; b=XeHxkJ7WWGIMOSu8x53Adqo0E/FpPhu712EWLFbcnHWsYk1+YcoX3w0XO6NzQwSKz3m5iOqwpqGBieoRNLDSp1R2OyELepLnfmqCXmgqyDTp25qydVsGC+JsGRIKrFHNb6jLxTEUECFgqzgmb/aatyJpX9m7OfQuJ5jZOOXJj9E= 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=216.40.44.16 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 omf03.hostedemail.com (lb01a-stub [10.200.18.249]) by unirelay10.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EBEC5759; Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:20:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 72A0E6000A; Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:20:40 +0200 From: Joe Perches To: Eugene Mavick Cc: Andy Whitcroft , Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: MAINTAINERS: warn on missing paths In-Reply-To: <20260712-chkpatch-file-entries-v1-1-68bcf96ff59e@mavick.dev> References: <20260712-chkpatch-file-entries-v1-1-68bcf96ff59e@mavick.dev> Message-ID: <23d3654ccf0b2f6b5f73b743ad198a18@perches.com> X-Sender: joe@perches.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: b6pt5bx1dunom976u9jfirz587nohj1y X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout08 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 72A0E6000A X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX18Yewd/0iw36kybg6+uRmBERyHKrxBY2hU= X-HE-Tag: 1783844440-144081 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX199tnpQuxEopCGT1+WNz1b2mcKKl6b63Q4W2mtRvXcRIoIB6c9838SGCOp319IcuJ4WJ6CSwDF7Ri6Vrb8Blb5qq7kDUDLSf9m1rNQKpc2/rmZGR34y2sOHmObdVqTyZ5PTC8/mqItE8eR8/mNcx73voUK8ldywByE1oaKcFLxCmXxrFEBYaFoVSmF7GwFXeElsac1vvc0JMUeAiBLOdHXzMrIBUimqNeFmGHDxWg1uJxuvcfVPCaKqicOptC1htdJ4+3FTrlz5+A== On 2026-07-12 10:14, 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. Nack. There's already a self test for that.