Re: [PATCH][next] ASoC: SOF: control.h: Replace zero-length array with DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper

[Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 11:39:50PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 05:27:41PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > On 9/26/22 17:12, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 04:40:55PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 
> > > As documented in submitting-patches.rst please send patches to the
> > > maintainers for the code you would like to change.  The normal kernel
> > > workflow is that people apply patches from their inboxes, if they aren't
> > > copied they are likely to not see the patch at all and it is much more
> > > difficult to apply patches.
> 
> > That's exactly what I intended to do:
> > 
> > $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nokeywords --nogit --nogit-fallback include/sound/sof/control.h
> > Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> (maintainer:SOUND)
> > Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com> (maintainer:SOUND)
> > alsa-devel@alsa-project.org (moderated list:SOUND)
> > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
> > 
> > Did you see anything wrong with this or something...?
> 
> Yes, you should've also included me and the SOF maintainers.  It looks
> like the MAINTAINERS patterns aren't entirely up to date there
> unfortunately.  Though that said given that you'd picked up on the
> subject line I'd have expected the signoffs on the commits to also be
> pointing at the right tree as well.

Subject line heuristics look at X-many commits, but it looks like
get_maintainers stops looking at git history by default after 1 year,
which seems kind of odd. I had to work at it to get it to emit your
name. :)

scripts/get_maintainer.pl --git --git-since=3-years-ago

Seems like it's worth getting the MAINTAINERS regex updated? Is this
right?

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a34ec41fbf7a..2560dded0e3e 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -19261,6 +19261,7 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/
 F:	Documentation/sound/soc/
 F:	include/dt-bindings/sound/
 F:	include/sound/soc*
+F:	include/sound/sof/
 F:	sound/soc/
 
 SOUND - SOUND OPEN FIRMWARE (SOF) DRIVERS
@@ -19275,6 +19276,7 @@ L:	sound-open-firmware@alsa-project.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
 S:	Supported
 W:	https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/
 F:	sound/soc/sof/
+F:	include/sound/sof/
 
 SOUNDWIRE SUBSYSTEM
 M:	Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>

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Kees Cook