On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 19:31, Thomas Huth <h...@tuxfamily.org> wrote: > > Am Sun, 5 Jul 2020 07:29:06 -0700 (PDT) > schrieb no-re...@patchew.org: > > > Patchew URL: > > https://patchew.org/QEMU/20200705140315.260514-1-h...@tuxfamily.org/ > [...] > > === OUTPUT BEGIN === > > 1/30 Checking commit b5e3116a3591 (target/avr: Add basic parameters > > of the new platform) WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does > > MAINTAINERS need updating? #42: > > new file mode 100644 > > These warnings are really annoying. The target/avr folder is added to > MAINTAINERS in the first patch, so they should not occur...?
checkpatch's logic for this is extremely simplistic: it will warn if: * the patch adds, moves or deletes a file * the patch does not itself modify MAINTAINERS This naturally leads to a ton of false-positives. thanks -- PMM
