Re: [PATCH 13/13] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for the bitmap API

From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Klimov <aklimov@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Jianpeng Ma <jianpeng.ma@intel.com>,
	John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
	Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>,
	Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/13] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for the bitmap API
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:40:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKXUXMx9SFAxT_GoRw+Un7XyAuXh4LY0+RFwcKVOCG0vr2XUxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eff989d0ceaede15216f1046c24829f1113c035f.camel@perches.com>

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 5:57 AM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 21:47 -0700, Yury Norov wrote:
> > [CC Andy Whitcroft, Joe Perches, Dwaipayan Ray, Lukas Bulwahn]
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:45:51PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 06:54:24PM -0700, Yury Norov wrote:
> > > > Add myself as maintainer for bitmap API and Andy and Rasmus as reviewers.
> > > >
> > > > I'm an author of current implementation of lib/find_bit and an active
> > > > contributor to lib/bitmap. It was spotted that there's no maintainer for
> > > > bitmap API. I'm willing to maintain it.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
> > > > Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> > > > Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> > > > ---
> > > >  MAINTAINERS | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > index 3dd20015696e..44f94cdd5a20 100644
> > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > @@ -3151,6 +3151,22 @@ F: Documentation/filesystems/bfs.rst
> > > >  F:       fs/bfs/
> > > >  F:       include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > +BITMAP API
> > > > +M:       Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
> > > > +R:       Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> > > > +R:       Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> > > > +S:       Maintained
> > > > +F:       include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h
> > > > +F:       include/linux/bitmap.h
> > > > +F:       lib/bitmap.c
> > > > +F:       lib/find_bit.c
> > >
> > > > +F:       lib/find_find_bit_benchmark.c
> > >
> > > Does this file exist?
> > > I guess checkpatch.pl nowadays has a MAINTAINER data base validation.
> >
> > No lib/find_find_bit_benchmark.c doesn't exist. It's a typo, it should
> > be lib/find_bit_benchmark.c. Checkpatch doesn't warn:
> >
> > yury:linux$ scripts/checkpatch.pl 0013-MAINTAINERS-Add-entry-for-the-bitmap-API.patch
> > total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 22 lines checked
>
> checkpatch does not validate filenames for each patch.
>
> checkpatch does have a --self-test=patterns capability that does
> validate file accessibility.

Joe meant: get_maintainers does have a --self-test=patterns capability
that does validate file accessibility.

You can run that before patch submission; otherwise, I run that script
on linux-next once a week and send out correction patches as far as my
"spare" time allows to do so.

Lukas