Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:14:20 -0700 | Subject | Re: Question about create mode, checkpatch, and MAINTAINERS | From | Jeff Merkey <> |
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On 1/27/16, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 10:52 -0700, Jeff Merkey wrote: >> So while putting together a patch series that adds some include files >> in the arch/ I ran across the checkpatch WARNING that says MAINTAINERS >> needs updating for new files with create mode. >> Is the best way to do this to submit MAINTAINERS as a separate patch >> or in its own patch with the series, or can I just send the patch >> series to the current MAINTAINERS of those arches and skip this add >> maintainers and ignore the checkpatch WARNING for this. > > You can ignore it. > > The checkpatch message is just a prompt. It asks > "does MAINTAINERS need updating"? The checkpatch message > is just asking > to consider whether or not MAINTAINERS > needs updating. MAINTAINERS may > not need updating at all. > >> From what I have seen, its not a good idea to ignore anything >> checkpatch reports. > > It's always better to ignore mechanized messages from > brainless scripts when you know what you're doing. > >
Thanks Joe.
:-)
Jeff
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