Re: [PATCHv3 4/4] MAINTAINERS: Remove powerpc's opal match

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Thu Feb 16 2017 - 00:27:57 EST


Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> PPC's 'opal' match pattern also matches block/sed-opal.c, where it looks
> like the 'arch/powerpc' file pattern should be enough to match powerpc
> opal code by itself. Remove the opal regex pattern from powerpc.

We thought of it first.

Can't you just rename your driver, Opal Storage Specification, so "oss",
that should be pretty unique?

... :)

I don't like this version, but I'll merge the one from Stewart which
drops the pattern and adds the paths for the existing drivers.

cheers

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index b983b25..430dd02 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -7404,7 +7404,6 @@ F: drivers/pci/hotplug/pnv_php.c
> F: drivers/pci/hotplug/rpa*
> F: drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/
> F: tools/testing/selftests/powerpc
> -N: opal
> N: /pmac
> N: powermac
> N: powernv
> --
> 1.8.3.1