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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: enable MAINTAINERS warning only for --strict,--subjective
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:27:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1418808435.14140.16.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1418801732-19141-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com>

On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 23:35 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> The rule which delivers this warning is very prone to errors:
>   "added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?"
> so it should not be enabled by default.

I don't think so.

It's _far_ more common for people to forget to
update MAINTAINERS so I think it's quite useful
even if it's slightly noisy.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-17  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-17  7:35 [PATCH] checkpatch: enable MAINTAINERS warning only for --strict,--subjective Brian Norris
2014-12-17  9:27 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-12-17 15:53   ` Kevin Cernekee
2014-12-17 17:26     ` Joe Perches
2014-12-18 20:12 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix MAINTAINERS search pattern Derek Chickles
2014-12-18 21:17   ` Joe Perches
2014-12-19  2:34     ` Chickles, Derek
2014-12-19  3:57       ` Joe Perches

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