Re: [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: merge entries for felix and ocelot drivers

Jakub Kicinski
2020-06-15T16:37:16Z

On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 01:07:53 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
>
> The ocelot switchdev driver also provides a set of library functions for
> the felix DSA driver, which in practice means that most of the patches
> will be of interest to both groups of driver maintainers.
>
> So, as also suggested in the discussion here, let's merge the 2 entries
> into a single larger one:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg657412.html
>
> Note that the entry has been renamed into "OCELOT SWITCH" since neither
> Vitesse nor Microsemi exist any longer as company names, instead they
> are now named Microchip (which again might be subject to change in the
> future), so use the device family name instead.
>
> Suggested-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>

Looks like checkpatch is unhappy about the order of files?

WARNING: Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list file patterns in alphabetic order
#58: FILE: MAINTAINERS:12308:
+F: include/soc/mscc/ocelot*
+F: drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/

WARNING: Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list file patterns in alphabetic order
#59: FILE: MAINTAINERS:12309:
+F: drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/
+F: drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/*

total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 0 checks, 46 lines checked