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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/5] checkpatch: reduce MAINTAINERS
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To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>



On 26/01/2017 14:11, Thomas Huth wrote:
> This is a port of the following commit from the Linux kernel:
> 
> commit e0d975b1b439c4fef58fbc306c542c94f48bb849
> Author: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Date:   Wed Dec 10 15:51:49 2014 -0800
> 
>     checkpatch: reduce MAINTAINERS update message frequency
> 
>     When files are being added/moved/deleted and a patch contains an update to
>     the MAINTAINERS file, assume it's to update the MAINTAINERS file correctly
>     and do not emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message.
> 
>     Reported by many people.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index e1be7b3..555a5b6 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1300,6 +1300,12 @@ sub process {
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> +# Check if MAINTAINERS is being updated.  If so, there's probably no need to
> +# emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message on file add/move/delete
> +		if ($line =~ /^\s*MAINTAINERS\s*\|/) {
> +			$reported_maintainer_file = 1;
> +		}
> +
>  # Check for added, moved or deleted files
>  		if (!$reported_maintainer_file && !$in_commit_log &&
>  		    ($line =~ /^(?:new|deleted) file mode\s*\d+\s*$/ ||
> 

Maybe leave it as a warning given this change?

Paolo