Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: add TRACE EVENT LIBRARY section

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 6:42 AM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
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> > On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 6:21 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > The git history shows that the files under ./tools/lib/traceevent/ are
> > > being developed and maintained by Tzetomir Stoyanov and Steven Rostedt
> > > and are discussed on the linux-trace-devel list.
> > >
> > > Add a suitable section in MAINTAINERS for patches to reach them.
> > >
> > > This was identified with a small script that finds all files only
> > > belonging to "THE REST" according to the current MAINTAINERS file, and I
> > > acted upon its output.
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> > > +TRACE EVENT LIBRARY
> > > +M:     Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
> > > +M:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > > +L:     linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
> > > +S:     Maintained
> > > +F:     tools/lib/traceevent/
> >
> > Don't forget to run early mentioned scripts (in some other threads).
> >
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> Andy, I did run on next-20200203:

Awesome, thanks!

> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f MAINTAINERS
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> WARNING: MAINTAINERS entries use one tab after TYPE:
> #14607: FILE: MAINTAINERS:14607:
> +M:     Micah Morton <mortonm@chromium.org>
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> WARNING: MAINTAINERS entries use one tab after TYPE:
> #14608: FILE: MAINTAINERS:14608:
> +S:     Supported
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> WARNING: MAINTAINERS entries use one tab after TYPE:
> #14609: FILE: MAINTAINERS:14609:
> +F:     security/safesetid/
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> WARNING: MAINTAINERS entries use one tab after TYPE:
> #14610: FILE: MAINTAINERS:14610:
> +F:     Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.rst
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> total: 0 errors, 4 warnings, 18577 lines checked
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> That issue in MAINTAINERS has a pending patch since 2019-12-07, with three
> attempts of asking to be picked up by now:
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> - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191207182751.14249-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com/
> - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200116185844.11201-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com/
> - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200204040434.7173-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com/
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> It is not related to this patch in MAINTAINERS here.
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> I also ran $ perl ./scripts/parse-maintainers.pl and checked the generated
> diff for this entry, but there was no reordering required; a one-element
> list of F: entries is difficult to get unsorted ;)
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> I am not adding any mess (ordering issues) to MAINTAINERS with this patch,
> other than what is already there, but cleaning that up is completely other
> story.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko