Re: MAINTAINERS still leaves more files uncovered than I'd like

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 02/10/2023 08.18, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> On 29/9/23 13:43, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Back in 2014 (time flies), I posted
>>
>>      Subject: MAINTAINERS leaves too many files uncovered
>>      Message-ID: <87mw8rumhb.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>
>>      https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/87mw8rumhb.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org/
>>
>> I updated my findings in 2015, 2016 (at commit e00da552a0d), and 2018
>> (at v3.1.0-rc2).  This is another update, at commit 36e9aab3c56.
>>
>> Unsurprisingly, the number of files in the tree
>>
>>      $ git-ls-files | wc -l
>>
>> grows over time:
>>
>>      year  2014  2015  2016  2018  2023
>>      #     3746  4387  4921  6461  9788
>>
>> Looks exponential to me, doubling every seven years or so.
>>
>> The number of .c files has grown more slowly:
>>
>>      year  2014  2015  2016  2018  2023
>>      #     1836  1945  2132  2633  3588
>>
>> The number of .c files not covered by MAINTAINERS
> 
> [...]
> 
>> hw/sensor/dps310.c
>> hw/sensor/emc141x.c
>> hw/sensor/lsm303dlhc_mag.c
>> hw/sensor/max31785.c
>> hw/sensor/meson.build
>> hw/sensor/tmp105.c
>> hw/sensor/tmp421.c
> 
> I sent a patch for these but the community didn't
> seem very interested back then:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230220110235.24472-1-philmd@linaro.org/

As long as nobody complains, I'd say just go for it and put it in your next 
pull request :-)

  Thomas