Re: [PATCH v9 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for xilinx-ams

Joe Perches
2021-11-17T23:07:00Z

On Wed, 2021-11-17 at 21:28 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:46:20AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On 2021-11-17 09:08, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 6:05 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > What do you think checkpatch is supposed to find?
> >
> > > To me AMS should precede AXI and not the other way around. Agree?
> >
> > Sure but checkpatch just looks at patches and doesn't inspect the patched
> > file, apply the patch then look at the result. The patch itself looks fine.
>
> I see, checkpatch simply doesn't have such functionality and maintainers should
> ask people to rung parse-maintainers.pl from time to time…

I asked Linus to do that before every -rc1 and he demurred.