From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julia Lawall Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:18:11 +0000 Subject: Re: checkpatch: See if modified files are marked obsolete in MAINTAINERS Message-Id: List-Id: References: <87shtwvm63.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <7ceaa510dc9d2df05ec4b456baed7bb1415550b3.1471889575.git.joe@perches.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: SF Markus Elfring Cc: Joe Perches , Andrew Morton , Kalle Valo , Arend van Spriel , Andy Whitcroft , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fengguang Wu On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > Use get_maintainer to check the status of individual files. > > If "obsolete", suggest leaving the files alone. > > Will another software system like the "kbuild test robot" > need any more fine-tuning for this change? It only works on files in which there have been commits, thus by definition not obsolete. julia > > Regards, > Markus > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >