From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625A6C28CBC for ; Wed, 6 May 2020 20:59:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477822078C for ; Wed, 6 May 2020 20:59:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729432AbgEFU7w (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2020 16:59:52 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0133.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.133]:46778 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728535AbgEFU7w (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2020 16:59:52 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay08.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF73182D31F0; Wed, 6 May 2020 20:59:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: scale25_72f58b20c6452 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2727 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.136.130]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf09.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 6 May 2020 20:59:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <303818f9b6dc16880b3bc715c16144e4245022b8.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: Wrong ordering in S390 PCI SUBSYSTEM From: Joe Perches To: Lukas Bulwahn , Andy Shevchenko Cc: Pierre Morel , Vasily Gorbik , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 13:59:48 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.1-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 22:37 +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > > On Wed, 6 May 2020, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 8:46 AM Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > > > Hi Pierre, > > > > > > with your commit de267a7c71ba ("s390/pci: Documentation for zPCI"), > > > visible on next-20200505, ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f MAINTAINERS > > > complains: > > > > > > WARNING: Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list file patterns in alphabetic order > > > #14723: FILE: MAINTAINERS:14723: > > > +F: drivers/pci/hotplug/s390_pci_hpc.c > > > +F: Documentation/s390/pci.rst > > > > > > > > > This is due to wrong ordering of the entries in your submission. If you > > > would like me to send you a patch fixing that, please just let me know. > > > > > > It is a recent addition to checkpatch.pl to report ordering problems in > > > MAINTAINERS, so you might have not seen that at submission time. > > > > Why not to send a patch? > > Same for the rest of similar mails from you. > > > > Well, the checkpatch warning is new, so I want to find out if and make > sure that the involved developers are generally okay getting those patches > or if there is a better way handling those patches to MAINTAINERS. > > I do not expect that there are too many further cases of this warning > appearing soon in linux-next now that checkpatch already warns about it. Hey Lukas. Don't expect _too_ much as checkpatch has for a long time has done add/delete/move tests for files and emitted a "Does MAINTAINERS need updating" message that most have ignored or not seen as many patches are submitted without running checkpatch.