From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751598AbaLQJ1U (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2014 04:27:20 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0025.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.25]:51191 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750829AbaLQJ1S (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2014 04:27:18 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1537:1566:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2196:2199:2393:2559:2562:2828:2895:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3622:3865:3867:3871:3872:4321:5007:6261:6691:7903:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12517:12519:12740:13069:13255:13311:13357:21080,0,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 X-HE-Tag: bath29_3f868fdb1c020 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1291 Message-ID: <1418808435.14140.16.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: enable MAINTAINERS warning only for --strict,--subjective From: Joe Perches To: Brian Norris Cc: Andy Whitcroft , Kevin Cernekee , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:27:15 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1418801732-19141-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> References: <1418801732-19141-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.7-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.