On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 07:35:44AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:

Perhaps Cesar can use his script as a starting point to find those
pattern invalidating commits or maybe add the capability (or a
--strict check) to checkpatch.

Or that, I don't have a strict preference.

So, yeah, I can see how checkpatch saying: "you've just renamed a
file and thusly invalidated a pattern in MAINTAINERS. Pls, consider
correcting the pattern" could make sense. And I would even add it to
default functionality since the MAINTAINERS patterns are something we
want to always have up-to-date, IMO.

Thanks.

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