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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: See if modified files are marked obsolete in
 MAINTAINERS
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 22:50:15 +0200
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
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> @@ -2289,6 +2299,10 @@ sub process {
>  		}
>  
>  		if ($found_file) {
> +			if (is_maintained_obsolete($realfile)) {
> +				WARN("OBSOLETE",
> +				     "$realfile is marked as 'obsolete' in the MAINTAINERS hierarchy.  No unnecessary modifications please.\n");
> +			}

How do you think about to avoid a double negation in such a warning message?

Would a wording like "… Only really necessary modifications please.\n"
be more useful here?

Regards,
Markus