Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers for MIPS core drivers

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 6:52 PM Serge Semin
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 06:30:22PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 6:19 PM Serge Semin
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 04:56:21PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 3:26 PM Serge Semin
[off-list ref] wrote:

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Add myself as a maintainer of MIPS CPU and GIC IRQchip, MIPS GIC timer
and MIPS CPS CPUidle drivers.

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+MIPS CORE DRIVERS
+M:     Serge Semin [off-list ref]
+L:     linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
+S:     Supported
+F:     drivers/bus/mips_cdmm.c
+F:     drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c
+F:     drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c
+F:     drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c
+F:     drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-cps.c

I think nowadays checkpatch.pl warns on wrong ordering in this data base.

Alas it doesn't.

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Ah, it definitely will.
it was relatively recently added by:
commit 9bbce40a4f72fe01a65669aee9f4036baa7fa26e
Author: Joe Perches [off-list ref]
Date:   Tue May 26 10:36:34 2020 +1000

   checkpatch: additional MAINTAINER section entry ordering checks

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Good point though.

You're welcome.

Next time I won't forget that then. BTW the notes at the top of the MAINTAINERS
file don't explicitly say about the files-list order. Only about the
whole maintainers list entries order. Seeing the rest of the sub-entries like
L:, M:, etc. aren't ordered then it's probably better to have an explicit
statement, that files should be alphabetically listed, especially when
checkpatch.pl starts warning about that.

Joe, what do you think?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko